Crackpot, North Yorkshire
Crackpot | |
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![]() Looking down into Swaledale from above Crackpot | |
![]() ![]() Crackpot Location within North Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SD973966 |
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Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | RICHMOND |
Postcode district | DL11 |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Crackpot is a village in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the Old English kraka (crow) and the Viking word pot (usually a pit or deep hole often in the bed of a river, but in this case it refers to a rift in the limestone).[1]
Crackpot Cave[]
A potholer beside the column in Crackpot Cave
Located south of Crackpot in Scurvey Scar, Crackpot Cave contains a column where a stalactite has joined up with its stalagmite. It is accessible through the aptly named Knee-wrecker Passage.
References[]
- ^ Olmert, Michael (1996). Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella: Curiouser & Curiouser Adventures in History, p.238. Simon & Schuster, New York. ISBN 0-684-80164-7.
External links[]
Media related to Crackpot, North Yorkshire at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Villages in North Yorkshire
- Swaledale
- Caves of North Yorkshire
- Richmondshire geography stubs
- Caving stubs