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<< Our Photo Pages >> Yordas cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in England in Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by Andy_h on Tuesday, 10 August 2004  Page Views: 14646

Natural PlacesSite Name: Yordas cave
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Cave or Rock Shelter

Map Ref: SD704790
Latitude: 54.205883N  Longitude: 2.455295W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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peerjay visited on 14th Dec 2010 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Yordas Cave is situated on private land. Permission can be obtained from Braida Garth farm, about a mile down Kingsdale. Usually freely given. Cave can flood completely and RAPIDLY in wet conditions. Remnant drawings and inscriptions on main chamber walls.

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Yordas Cave
Yordas Cave submitted by andy_h : Previously a Victorian Showcave in which evidence of early human habitation was found. A wonderful place to spend an afternoon exploring with a torch. The highlight being the underground waterfall chamber at the back of the cave. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave in Yorkshire (North)

Previously a Victorian Showcave in which evidence of early human habitation was found. A wonderful place to spend an afternoon exploring with a torch. The highlight being the underground waterfall chamber at the back of the cave.

Note from Neil 'Ministry': The cave is named 'Yordas', from the Norse 'jord-ass', or 'earth-stream'. It's not 'Yorda's Cave'.
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Yordas cave submitted by nicoladidsbury : The stream enters the rocks leading down into Yordas' waterfall and cavern. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yordas cave submitted by nicoladidsbury : Further up the gorge from Yordas cave, this photo shows the waterfall before it is swallowed up by the earth (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yordas cave submitted by nicoladidsbury : Inside Yordas Cave looking into the waterfall cavern (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yordas cave submitted by nicoladidsbury : Inside Yordas Cave looking up the waterfall (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yordas cave submitted by Antonine : 2018 - Looking down into waterfall from above, outside (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yordas cave submitted by Antonine : 2018 (1 comment)

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Yordas cave submitted by Antonine

Yordas cave
Yordas cave submitted by Antonine

Yordas cave
Yordas cave submitted by Antonine : 2018 - wow what a place!

Yordas cave
Yordas cave submitted by MonumentMan : Yordas standing stone and Cave is aligned towards the Apron Full of Stone Ring Cairn/Henge on the eastern side of Kingsdale Beck (seen right of Yordas standing stone). This placement of the Bronze Age Ring Cairn/Henge is likely ritual/symbolic in relation to Yordas Cave and gorge.

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Yordas cave submitted by MonumentMan : The Yordas standing stone is a limestone boulder (1.4m high, 1.6mwide) that stands centrally in the gorge outside the entrance to the cave. It may be natural or placed.

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Yordas cave submitted by MonumentMan : Yordas Cave entrance and the upper gorge dry waterfall

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Yordas cave submitted by MonumentMan : Yordas Gorge below the cave looking due West from the road gate

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Yordas cave submitted by nicoladidsbury : Looking from the road to the small gorge containing Yordas Cave

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Re: Yorda's cave by peerjay on Friday, 14 January 2011
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Yordas Cave is situated on private land. Permission can be obtained from Braida Garth farm, about a mile down Kingsdale. Usually freely given.
The cave can flood completely and RAPIDLY in wet conditions. There are remnant drawings and inscriptions on the main chamber walls.
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Re: Yorda's cave by Anonymous on Tuesday, 24 June 2008
First entered yordas in 1954 when it had a wooden gate to stop the sheep from wandering in . It diddnt, and as I peered into the blackness with a Pifco torch for ilumination I beheld the eyes of the devil peering back at me!!!! I had been assured by my uncle Jackie that this was indeed where he lived --close to the gates of hell! This was of course to keep me out of danger but it only served to make me all the more determined to venture in----The sheep (whose eyes it was shining in the feeble pifco glimmer) rushed past me terrifying me half to death even though I knew that the devil was unlikely to be wearing a sheepskin jacket!--Happy days.
Mike Locke.--Of the Benthams!
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