# Eden Sike Cave

- **Length:** 772 m
- **Survey:** [http://cavemaps.org/surveys/npc/full/NPC%20J67%20Eden%20Syke%20Cave%20-%20Mallerstang.png Northern Pennine Club 1960]
- **Geology:** Carboniferous limestone
- **Location:** Mallerstang, Cumbria, UK
- **Elevation:** 397 m
- **Difficulty:** II
- **Grid Ref Uk:** SD 7822 9701
- **Photo Width:** 240
- **Photo Caption:** The Resurgence for Eden Sike Cave
- **Entrance Count:** 1

Eden Sike Cave is a small cave in Mallerstang in the Eden valley in Cumbria, England north of Hell Gill. The entrance is north west of an obvious resurgence in a small shakehole. This drops into a passage where a wet crawl leads downstream towards the resurgence, and a roomier passage going upstream. The upstream passage soon deteriorates into more awkward going which eventually passes a small but awkward climb into an inlet passage up to the right. The main passage goes to a sump some long which has been passed to a further before becoming too tight. The right-hand passage passes a section of sharp, steeply angled rock (Bacon Slicer Rift) into a chamber where the way on is a tight, wet passage where the airspace becomes minimal.

![Photo of Eden Sike Cave](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/EdenSikeCave.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Sike_Cave (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)