Hodge Close and Cathedral Cavern 4 miles

This is a short walk but a very interesting one, devised for me as a family walk by Anthony's brother Michael, but on this occasion I was on my own.

This is Hodge Close looking cold and uninviting under the gray winter clouds, but a place where in a past life I have dived in. It was a popular quarry for diver training due to it's depth of 100 ft. At the bottom is a tunnel which one enters at ones peril. 

The access to the the quarry for the divers is from an adjacent quarry and from where two large holes have been broken through just above the water level.

   After descending into the adjacent quarry, a path leads to the breakthrough. As I remember it from 40 years ago, we went through a tunnel  but, more quarrying must have been carried out since then.

From here after getting back up onto the road, a walk of about a mile brought me to Little Langdale Quarries.

      

                   After walking through this tunnel I arrived at Cathedral Cavern.

     

Another short tunnel leads out of the Cavern, from where a short scramble takes you up to a ledge above. Childs play really.

                   From where you can look down into the cavern from above.

                               Further explorations revealed several more tunnels.

        

A short dinner break before continuing the circular walk back to Hodge Close. An excellent, interesting walk Michael. Thank you.