Rowten Pot is one of several entrances into the 27-kilometre (17 mi) long cave system that drains Kingsdale in North Yorkshire, England.

The cave is largely vertical, but at the bottom the stream flows through a short section of passage into the underground West Kingsdale river.

[4] The cave is usually descended using single rope techniques, and is popular with cavers, being spacious and offering a variety of aerial routes.

The first description of Rowten Pot appeared in verse in Thomas Dixon's A Description of the Environs of Ingleborough of 1781:The Routing-Chasm amazing to behold,With dreadful yawn intimidates the bold:The depth unknown, vast, dismal, dark and wide,With rugged pointed rocks on every side;A rapid stream falls in with hideous roar,Growls thro the mountain to some distant shore:Dismay arrests the man that ventures near,His face turns pale, his courage yields to fear.

Such was the effort required to rescue Lambert's companions, who were trapped by water in the shaft, that the BBC broadcast an appeal for any available potholers to help.