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Gaping Gill System - A List Of Entrances

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Entrance Location Year Connected Point of Entry into System
Main Shaft SD 7511 7270 1895 Main Chamber, Gaping Gill
Jib Tunnel SD 7510 7270 1896 Main Chamber, Gaping Gill
Flood Entrance Pot SD 7514 7242 1909 South-East Passage, Gaping Gill
Rat Hole SD 7509 7272 1935 Main Chamber, Gaping Gill
Disappointment Pot SD 7505 7260 1944 Hensler's Master Cave, Gaping Gill
Stream Passage Pot SD 7485 7252 1949 Stream Passage, Gaping Gill
Bar Pot SD 7518 7234 1949 South-East Passage, Gaping Gill
Wade's Entrance SD 7511 7243 1957 Flood Entrance Pot, below first pitch
Beck Head Stream Cave SD 7550 7115 1978 Lake Pluto, Ingleborough Cave
Ingleborough Cave SD 7542 7109 1983 Lower Series, Far Waters, Gaping Gill
Motley Pot SD 7497 7265 1984 Upstream Disappointment Pot
Rat Hole Sink SD 7510 7273 1984 Upstream Rat Hole
Clapham Beck Head Cave SD 7546 7109 1991 Downstream Beck Head Stream Cave
Foxholes SD 7569 7146 1993 Far Eastern Bedding Plane, Ingleborough Cave
Hensler's Pot SD 7526 7252 2003 Hensler's High Aven, Gaping Gill
Corky's Pot SD 7527 7268 2004 East Passage (Mud Hall), Gaping Gill
Clapham Bottoms Pot SD 7584 7208 2004 Troubled Waters Series, Gaping Gill
Small Mammal Pot SD 7520 7233 2005 Small Mammal House, Bar Pot
Marilyn SD 7524 7242 2005 Aven before 3rd pitch, Disappointment Pot
Stile Pot SD 7521 7233 2008 Small Mammal House, Bar Pot
OBJ Hole SD 7507 7246 2010 Flood Entrance Pot, after the zig-zags

Notes:

You may download a zip file of the position of the Gaping Gill entrances in Memory Map overlay file format, GPS eXchange file format, and Google Earth KML file format from here.