The pot is accessed via a 1 km private track on payment of a small fee from Selside Farm in the hamlet of Selside in Ribblesdale.
During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the monks' interests at Horton in Ribblesdale was attributed with an annual income of £32 and 5 shillings; and was given to the Earl of Lennox.
Lord Ribblesdale married secondly Ava Lowle Willing, daughter of Edward Shippen Willing and former wife of John Jacob Astor IV, in 1919.