David Heap

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David Heap (14 March 1941 – 23 February 1995) was a largely responsible for the opening up and development of caving and potholing in Northern Norway in the 1960s and 1970s. He led a number of speleological expeditions to Norway, the French Pyrenees, and Greece. He was the author of the Potholing Beneath the Northern Pennines. After teaching history at Ermysted's Grammar in Skipton, he took a history lectureship at the University of Adelaide and extended his caving experience from the Yorkshire Dales to the Nullarbor region and Tasmania. After one year he returned to the UK and progressed to Headmaster at various secondary schools, notably William Hulme's Grammar, Manchester, Handsworth Grammar, Birmingham and King Edward VII School, Lytham St Annes. The Station Master's House at Ribblehead became the David Heap Memorial Centre in 1999.