Caves Near Settle

After parking in the car park near the market square in Settle (which turned out to be for free as both ticket machines were out of action), we set off following a lane to the north east which led uphill to a path continuing up grassy slopes to soon reach an area of impressive limestone scenery. Karen thought it was much like a “mini Dolomites” and I agree.
We passed a curious metal plate with an engraved pattern and a couple of metal plates with large holes in them obviously caused by some sort of armament as the holes were at least fist sized. I had a look in “Google” when I got home and it appears these are the remains of a firing range.
Anyway, we continued onwards and had a quick look at a small rock shelter and then followed the valley below Attermire scar where we had a short rain shower.
We could see a large cave entrance which was high and narrow but was at the top of a steep slope so we continued past. This turned out to be Attermire Cave.
The path continued below the limestone cliff and soon we arrived at Victoria Cave which has an information board near the large impressive entrance. We had a quick look around the large entrance chamber with our head torches.
The path continued and we arrived at another cave: Jubilee Cave. Again we had a quick look around but this was much smaller than Victoria Cave.

From here we dropped down a vehicle track leading towards Langcliffe as far as path which led us back across fields high above Settle to rejoin the track we had started on.

Part of old firing range target

Victoria Cave

Looking out from inside Victoria Cave