Walk · North Yorkshire

Gaping Gill and Little Ingleborough from Clapham

Clapham · LA2 8DP

8MILES

5hON FOOT

520mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 55%Lane & track 40%Road with traffic 5%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

LA2 8DP

Directions to the start →

Eight miles and a good five hours, climbing the estate track past Ingleborough Cave, squeezing through the dry gorge of Trow Gill and out onto boggy open fell to the mouth of Gaping Gill before the last pull to Little Ingleborough. Start from the National Park car park in Clapham; the village is on the 581 bus from Settle and Ingleton, and there is a small charge to walk the Ingleborough Estate nature trail at the start. Keep the dog on the lead and keep it close: Gaping Gill is an unfenced hundred-metre shaft with smaller pots scattered around it, the fell carries sheep and ground-nesting birds, and Clapham Beck at the bottom is the only reliable water; the estate track uses gates rather than stiles, but the wall crossings on the return down Long Lane include two narrow stone squeezes a big dog will not get through.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads throughout - open access fell with sheep and ground-nesting birds. Gaping Gill is a 100-metre open shaft with no fence around the lip.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.1130, -2.3900

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Gaping Gill and Little Ingleborough from Clapham

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