Walk · North Yorkshire

Clapham to Ingleborough Cave and Trow Gill

Clapham · LA2 8DP

4.5MILES

2h 15mON FOOT

220mCLIMB

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

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 40%Lane & track 50%Road with traffic 10%

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.

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LA2 8DP

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Four and a half miles in around two hours, up the Ingleborough Estate Nature Trail past the lake and the Farrer plantings to the show cave, then into the dry limestone gorge of Trow Gill, returning over the fields by Clapdale Farm. Good gravel track for the first mile with a modest gradient, rougher and rockier through the gill; start from the National Park car park in Clapham, and note that the nature trail is a private toll path with a small charge collected at the gate. Dogs are welcome on the estate and even inside Ingleborough Cave, but the trail is on the lead, sheep graze the higher fields, and Gaping Gill and the smaller open shafts on the moor above are unfenced holes a running dog would not survive.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs on leads on the private nature trail, which charges a small toll. Unfenced open potholes on the moor above Trow Gill.

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Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.1163, -2.3908

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.YORKSHIREDALES.ORG.UK/PLACES/INGLEBOROUGH-ESTATE-NATURE-TRAIL/

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