Crewe Climbing and Potholing Club

Welcome!

We are an active and friendly caving club that welcomes both new and experienced cavers. Despite our name, we are mainly a caving club, though some members do climb as well. We are mostly based in Cheshire and Staffordshire, but some members live further away. Our caving and mine exploration takes place locally in the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales and further afield in this country and abroad.

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If you are totally new to caving and want to know what it is all about, then read What We Do and Why We Do It.


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Latest News

The latest news from the club. Just the most recent updates appear here. All the news, including older news (olds?) can be found from the News page.

Winnats Head Cave Rigging Guide Correction

Wed, Jul 30 2025

Removed pitch lengths from the downstream pitches of the Winnats Head Cave topo. One of these showed a 30m pitch with a 23m rope. Clearly wrong and a mistake that has crept in at some point. The rope lengths are known to be good and since pitch lengths are not essential to know, they have been removed. They have been kept for the upstream pitches, as these are on fixed ropes.

Sell Gill Trip Saturday 19th July and Knotlow Rigging Guide Update 21st July 2025

Mon, Jul 21 2025

Weather warnings for thunderstorms meant a rethink of the planned Diccan Pot trip. Instead a visit was made to the ever popular Sell Gill. Some photos from Gaz.

The DCA have rebolted the Chain Passage pitch into the Knotlow Cavern 210' Shaft. The rigging topo has been updated with information kindly supplied by the DCA.s

Rigging Guide Update 20th July 2025

Sun, Jul 20 2025

The Hillocks/Whalf rigging topo has been updated. The top of Whalf Climbing shaft now shows a scaff bar belay, with a tree backup, as it now is. The Engine Shaft top anchors are now shown as in situ rings. The hand picked shaft rigging and shaft shape now better reflect the reality underground.


Try Caving

Try Caving

We can arrange supervised caving trips for individuals, or for small groups, with all equipment provided. Our ability to do this was initially funded through a National Lottery grant. If you are interested, then please get in touch.


Peak District Rigging Guide

The CCPC Peak District Rigging Guide has moved on-line. The most comprehensive collection of SRT rigging topos for the Peak and free to use by all cavers. Accessible by clicking, or tapping the book below and via a link in the menu on any page.

CCPC Rigging Guide

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Yordas Pot in Kingsdale, with some club members. Video © Gareth Williams 2024.


Caving Conservation Code

As a club we aim to minimise the impact we have on the cave environment by following the BCA Caving Conservation Code.

  1. Cave with care and thought for the environment.
  2. Disturb nothing whether living or geological.
  3. Avoid touching formations.
  4. Keep to marked routes and never cross conservation tapes.
  5. Take nothing but photographs.
  6. Do not pollute the cave, leave nothing behind.

Risk Statement

As a club, Crewe Climbing & Potholing Club (C.C.P.C.) recognizes that the activities undertaken by Club Members may involve a danger of personal injury or death. As participants in such activities, all adult Members of C.C.P.C. (including Temporary Members) must be aware of, and accept, these risks, and must be responsible for their own actions, and for their own safety. [CCPC Risk Statement. 01-01-2015]


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