Re:A British village that built one of the UK’s fastest inte...
by tialaramex on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:28PM
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It's certainly not remote by American standards, but if not for the fact it has a railway station [that's why Clapham (Yorkshire) is on the drop down list of things you might have meant when you ask the railway ticketing system for tickets to Clapham even if you actually meant Clapham Junction the busy interchange in London] it'd be pretty far from anywhere by English standards. And that railway station is a good long walk from the actual village of Clapham anyway.
I went there because they have a very large hole in the ground nearby. A stream flowing over the hills reached a crack formed presumably by repeating freezing and thawing, and worked its way down from the brow of one hill to a river below, over a tremendously long period of time the flowing water has worn a cathedral-sized hole inside the hill. Twice a year tourists can get lowered down to see for themselves, cavers set up a proper winch and safety gear and let idiots like me with no experience wander about and gawp at it for a fee.
I went there because they have a very large hole in the ground nearby. A stream flowing over the hills reached a crack formed presumably by repeating freezing and thawing, and worked its way down from the brow of one hill to a river below, over a tremendously long period of time the flowing water has worn a cathedral-sized hole inside the hill. Twice a year tourists can get lowered down to see for themselves, cavers set up a proper winch and safety gear and let idiots like me with no experience wander about and gawp at it for a fee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaping_Gill