Best Things Across The UK

Falls of Dochart: The Waterfall at the Heart of a Village Most waterfalls require a walk to find. The Falls of Dochart require no such effort at all — they run directly through the centre of Killin, beneath the old stone Bridge of Dochart, in full view of the...

Swallow Falls: Wales' Highest Continuous Waterfall The River Llugwy has been performing for visitors at Swallow Falls for well over a century, and it still knows exactly what it is doing. The water tumbles 42 metres through a narrow, tree-lined gorge in a sequence of...

Wain Wath Force: The Broadest Waterfall in Upper Swaledale Wain Wath Force will never win a prize for height. The River Swale drops only around a metre and a half here, sliding gently over a wide limestone ledge beneath the pale cliffs of Cotterby Scar. But what it...

Gordale Scar: The Gorge That Stopped Wordsworth in His Tracks There is a moment as you walk the flat, pleasant path from Malham when the gorge closes around you without warning. The sky narrows to a strip above. The walls rear up on either side — overhanging...

Low Force: Teesdale's Most Peaceful Waterfall High Force gets the crowds. Low Force gets the quiet. Just a mile and a half downstream from its more famous neighbour, where the River Tees spreads wide across a series of 18-foot cascades over the Whin Sill...

Aberdulais Falls: Where Wales' Industrial Story Began In the winter of 1584, a German engineer named Ulrich Frosse chose this gorge for a secret reason: the River Dulais plunging over its ridge of hard Pennant sandstone was exactly the power source he needed. Under...