Talk:Ease Gill Caverns

Ease Gill vs. Easegill
Since there's some edit-summary-less reverting going on, just want to point out that: Any objection to leaving the IP's changes in place, and renaming the article Ease Gill cave system?--barneca (talk) 18:35, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) There is some difference in usage: Ease Gill vs. Easegill
 * 2) Ease Gill seems much more common: 1,410,000 Ghits vs. 625 Ghits
 * 3) Edit summaries are our friends

The academic caving literature and the latest survey uses 'Ease Gill'. --Langcliffe (talk) 21:43, 28 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Ease Gill cave system looks right to me. – ukexpat (talk) 18:47, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

"The first-discovered entrance"
This whole article is confused, torn between "Ease Gill Caverns" used to cover the interconnected cave systems which flow to Leck Beck Head, and "Ease Gill Caverns" which was used to describe the caves associated with Ease Gill itself.

The former is correctly described as having about 75 km of interconnected passages. However, if the article IS about the whole system it would be incorrect to say that the first discovered entrance was Lancaster Hole. The upstream passages of Lost Johns' on Leck Fell, for example, were explored in the nineteenth century and Bull Pot of Witches was well explored by the 1930s.

Lancaster Hole was the first entrance found which led to the passages below Ease Gill, but many other entrances had been explored by 1946. Langcliffe (talk) 12:06, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Longest cave system in Britain?
The opening line of the page seems to have been superceded by the opening of the link into the wider Three Counties mega system. Some of the sources cited as saying Ease Gill is longest have been updated to say Three Counties; one cited source hasn't, but doesn't look as if it's being maintained.

Would someone with greater knowledge of the subject like to rewrite the page opening? For example, I don't like to speculate whether we could say "Ease Gill is the major part of the UK's longest system". Ministry (talk) 13:51, 21 November 2017 (UTC)