Sir – Please can any reader supply me with the address of Dr Katie Whitaker who is said to live in North Yorkshire?
Some years ago she contributed to a book in which she wrote that: “The clergyman John Covel (1638–1722), in his northern travels, was ‘particularly pleased with Gingling-Cove and Reeking-Cove, near Ingleton, which (he saies) outdoe Oakey-Hole in Somersetshire and all the wonders of the Peak’.”
This well travelled gentleman was a very early visitor to the caves of the Northern Pennines and elsewhere, who pre-dates the previously known cave visitors to Ingleton.
I wish to correspond with Dr Whitaker with a view to placing John Covel in his correct place in the historical record.
Stephen A. Craven, 7 Amhurst Avenue, Newlands 7700, South Africa
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