Crackpot, North Yorkshire
Crackpot is a village in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England.
Crackpot | |
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Looking down into Swaledale from above Crackpot | |
Crackpot Location within North Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SD973966 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | RICHMOND |
Postcode district | DL11 |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Its name derives from the Old English kraka (a crow) and the Viking word pot (usually a cavity or deep hole often in the bed of a river, but in Crackpot's case it refers to a rift in the limestone).[1]
Crackpot Cave
Crackpot Cave is located south of Crackpot in Scurvey Scar. It contains a fine example of a column - where a stalactite has joined up with its stalagmite. To get to it you have to pass along the aptly named Knee-wrecker Passage.
References
- Olmert, Michael (1996). Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella: Curiouser & Curiouser Adventures in History, p.238. Simon & Schuster, New York. ISBN 0-684-80164-7.
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