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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
Flood Entrance (Wades)
Lost River Series (South East Pot)
Ireby Fell Cavern
Ireby II Escalator Rift around Jupiter Cavern and Cripple Creek pitches
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
Providence Pot
Replacing non-CNCC anchors only where absolutely required (no addition of non-essential anchors)
Scanty Lardos Pot
2026 pitches
Stream Passage Pot
Final pitch (Mud Pitch)
Thunder Pot
Plus 5 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
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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. Note that if planning the round trip via the Mancunian Way, see the Sylvester Pot topo for Ease Gill Aven rigging. For convenience there is a link to the Sylvester Pot topo shown here.
Cow Pot
Cupcake
Curtain Pot
Death's Head Hole
Diccan Pot
Disappointment Pot
Excalibur 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
Jean Pot
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
North End Pot
Notts Pot
OBJ Hole
Oddmire Pot
Nemesis Pitch has not yet been equipped with resin anchors.
Out Sleets Beck Pot
Pasture Gill Pot
Pay Sank
Penyghent Pot
Some rigging performed partially or entirely using natural belays.
Pillar Holes
Pippikin Pot
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
Strans Gill Pot
Faith, Hope and Charity pitches are CNCC-anchored. Sluice Pitch is not but we understand a combination of natural and spit belays are available. Fifth, sixth and seventh pitches (not descended for trips only going to Passage of Time) are not yet anchored but these are rarely descended. Work is ongoing and a topo will be published once anchoring is complete. Until then, tackle details to the Passage of Time are in the route description.
Stream Passage Pot
Anchors include final pitch down to sump (not part of the route to Gaping Gill Main Chamber).
Sunset Hole
Swinsto Hole
Sylvester Pot
Tatham Wife Hole
Top Sink
Uamh nan Claig-ionn
Valley Entrance
Vesper Pot
Washfold Pot
Wizard's Chasm
Wretched Rabbit
Yockenthwaite Pot
Yordas Cave
Yordas Pot