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Anchor Locations

Upcoming Installations

Caves that have been approved for installation of resin bonded anchors. Work will be completed by our volunteers as soon as possible.

(Get Down) Shep Pot
First pitch anchored 2024 - Remaining sections of cave still pending.
Bull Pot of the Witches
Replacing non-CNCC anchors at the top of Chimney Route
Car Pot
Climb into Craven Passage
County Pot
Numerous handlines including Brown and Smelly Chamber, Cadbury Traverse, Clough Passage, Mancunian Way
Craftsman's Pot
Excalibur Pot
Entrance pitch and climb to streamway
Flood Entrance (Wades)
Lost River Series (South East Pot)
Gaping Gill (Main Hang)
Far Country ladder replacement
Greenwood Pot
Ireby Fell Cavern
Ireby II Escalator Rift around Jupiter Cavern and Cripple Creek pitches
Jingling Pot
Final pitch
Link Pot
Traverse to reach Tiger's Inlet
Lost Johns' Cave
Monastery Route
Marble Pot
To be confirmed after digging work complete.
Mayday Hole
Lungs Pitch (an alternative route to the currently anchored route)
OBJ Hole
Old Ing
Waterfall anchors on route to Dismal Hill
Pay Sank
Providence Pot
Replacing non-CNCC anchors only where absolutely required (no addition of non-essential anchors)
Stream Passage Pot
Final pitch (Mud Pitch)
Sylvester Pot
First pitch and climb
Turbary Pot
Plus 6 more projects.

Installed Anchors

Locations below are installed with resin bonded anchors as part of the BCA anchor scheme.

AKA Hole
Alum Pot
Aquamole Pot
Aygill Caverns
Bar Pot
Big Meanie
Birks Fell Cave
Black Shiver Pot
Boggarts Roaring Holes
Boxhead Pot
Broken Finger Pot
Brown Hill Pot
Bull Pot
Bull Pot of the Witches
Bye George Pot
CNCC anchors installed on Grand Cascade only.
Calf Holes
Car Pot
Christmas Pot
Cote Gill Pot
County Pot
County Pot is fitted with stainless steel P-type resin anchors only on pitches depicted on the topo.
Cow Pot
Cupcake
Curtain Pot
Death's Head Hole
Diccan Pot
Disappointment Pot
F'ing Hopeless Pot
Five Ways Pot
Flood Entrance (original)
Flood Entrance (Wades)
Fossil Pot
FOUL Pot
Gaping Gill (Main Hang)
Gavel Pot
Gingling Hole
Grange Rigg Pot
Growling Hole
Hardrawkin Pot
Hensler's Pot
Heron Pot
High Hull Pot
Hunt Pot
Hurnel Moss Pot
Illusion Pot
CNCC anchors installed on Brunel Rift only.
Ireby Fell Cavern
It’s a Cracker
Jib Tunnel (Dihedral)
Jingling Pot
Jockey Hole
Juniper Gulf
Lancaster Hole
Langcliffe Pot
Large Pot
Link Pot
CNCC anchors installed on entrance, Ohce Pot and Echo Aven only.
Little Hull Pot
Long Drop Cave
Long Kin East Pot and Cave
Long Kin West
Lost Johns' Cave
IC anchors also installed on Lyle Cavern pitches (not shown on topos).
Marble Sink
Marble Steps Pot
Marilyn
Mayday Hole
Meregill Hole
New Goyden Pot
New Rift Pot
Newby Moss Cave
Nick Pot
North by North End Pot
Notts Pot
Oddmire Pot
Nemesis Pitch has not yet been equipped with resin anchors.
Out Sleets Beck Pot
Pasture Gill Pot
Penyghent Pot
Some rigging performed partially or entirely using natural belays.
Pillar Holes
Pippikin Pot
Non-CNCC resin-bonded anchors on first three pitches. Natural belays for remaining pitches.
Pool Sink
Quaking Pot
Rana Hole
Rat Hole
Rift Pot
Roaring Hole
Rowten Pot
Rumbling Hole
Scanty Lardos Pot
Sell Gill Holes
Short Drop Cave
Shuttleworth Pot
Simpson Pot
Chains were installed on Slit Pot, Slit Pot Overhead / Alternative and Great Aven pitches in Simpson Pot in 2025 to facilitate efficient pull-through on these three pitches. User guide included with topo.
Small Mammal Pot
Spectacle Pot
Stream Passage Pot
Sunset Hole
Swinsto Hole
Tatham Wife Hole
Top Sink
Uamh nan Claig-ionn
Valley Entrance
Vesper Pot
Washfold Pot
Wretched Rabbit
Yockenthwaite Pot
Yordas Cave
Yordas Pot