Coming up after a dive in Black Keld, to find it has started to snow.

Photo: Phil Murphy

Black Keld, near the village of Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales in England, is a large rising or spring, feeding water into the River Wharfe. The water in Black Keld comes from caves on the western slopes of Great Whernside.

Water rising from Black Keld

James Lambert, one of the farmers and family owners of Black Keld.

James Lambert stops work to find out what the divers have been doing. Without the goodwill of the Lambert family, exploration in Black Keld would cease. Access to Black Keld is through their farmyard and the farm is busy with milking cows, looking after sheep and all the jobs that go with those tasks - feeding, lambing, silage making, muck spreading, repairing machinery, etc. The family don't want curious visitors or more divers asking for permission to go there!

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