Leck Beck
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Leck Beck is a watercourse in Lancashire
with its source on Crag Hill in Cumbria
between Leck Fell
and Casterton Fell.
For several kilometres near the start of its course, the water flows into the Easegill Cave System
, the longest cave system in Britain (and 11th longest in the world) via 14 major sink holes to converge at a major spring at Leck Beck Head.
The rising of Leck Beck Head was dived extensively in the 1980s and required underwater digging and the use of an air chisel to make progress. The overflow for this rising, Witches Cave (Yorkshire), has been dived through a 300m sump into Witches II. A dry entrance was dug into Witches II from the surface in 2010.
The Beck flows through Leck
, Cowan Bridge
and Overtown before joining the River Lune
near Nether Burrow
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Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
with its source on Crag Hill in Cumbria
Cumbria
Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
between Leck Fell
Leck Fell
Leck Fell is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Lancashire. An area of typically heavily grazed open moorland of rough grass and remnant patches of heather with little or no tree cover, it is characterised by the virtual absence of surface drainage and an extensive subterranean drainage...
and Casterton Fell.
For several kilometres near the start of its course, the water flows into the Easegill Cave System
Easegill System
The Ease Gill Cave System is the second longest, afer Ogof Draenen, and most complex cave system in Britain, with around of passages, including connections only passable by cave diving. It spans the valley between Leck Fell and Casterton Fell...
, the longest cave system in Britain (and 11th longest in the world) via 14 major sink holes to converge at a major spring at Leck Beck Head.
The rising of Leck Beck Head was dived extensively in the 1980s and required underwater digging and the use of an air chisel to make progress. The overflow for this rising, Witches Cave (Yorkshire), has been dived through a 300m sump into Witches II. A dry entrance was dug into Witches II from the surface in 2010.
The Beck flows through Leck
Leck, Lancashire
Leck is a civil parish in the English county of Lancashire. The parish of Leck had a population of 189 recorded in the 2001 census, It is on the River Leck close to the main A65, south east of the Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale...
, Cowan Bridge
Cowan Bridge
Cowan Bridge is a village in the English county of Lancashire.It is south-east of the town of Kirkby Lonsdale where the main A65 road crosses the Leck Beck...
and Overtown before joining the River Lune
River Lune
The River Lune is a river in Cumbria and Lancashire, England.It is formed at Wath, in the parish of Ravenstonedale, Cumbria, at the confluence of Sandwath Beck and Weasdale Beck...
near Nether Burrow
Nether Burrow
Nether Burrow is a small hamlet in the Lunesdale Valley of North Lancashire. It is a small drive through settlement on the banks of the picturesque River Lune. There is not much there but there is a pub called the Highwayman Inn. It is on the A683 road between Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale. It...
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