Best Things Across The UK

Grey Mare's Tail: The 60-Metre Cascade That Hides a Secret Loch Above It Most people who pull into the car park below Grey Mare's Tail come for the waterfall — a tall, thin ribbon of white water dropping 60 metres down a craggy cliff into the Moffat Water valley. And...

Eas a' Chual Aluinn: Britain's Highest Waterfall Imagine standing at the lip of a high, windswept plateau as a ribbon of water peels away beneath your feet and falls — and falls — for some 200 metres into the wild glen below. This is Eas a' Chual...

Falls of Glomach: One of Britain's Tallest Waterfalls Imagine standing on a narrow rocky balcony, high above a hidden Highland chasm, as 113 metres of crystal-clear water crashes past you into the gorge below, the spray rising in a moody mist. This is the Falls...

Aber Falls: Eryri's Easy 37-Metre Giant Picture a single white column of water dropping 37 metres down a dark cliff at the head of a wooded valley, the Carneddau mountains rising behind it and ancient oak woodland all around. This is Aber Falls — Rhaeadr Fawr,...

Hardraw Force: England's Highest Single-Drop Waterfall Tucked into a hidden limestone gorge in Wensleydale, Hardraw Force sends a single, unbroken curtain of water plunging 30 metres from a rocky overhang into a deep pool below. It is widely held to be...

Pistyll Rhaeadr: One of the Seven Wonders of Wales Deep in the Berwyn Mountains, where the lanes shrink to a single track and the hills fold in around you, a river called the Afon Disgynfa reaches the lip of a cliff and simply lets go. The water drops 73 metres in...