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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...

East Gill Force: Where Two Great Walks Meet There is a particular pleasure in arriving at East Gill Force. You have walked the short path from Keld, crossed the long stone footbridge over the River Swale, and then the path turns and the waterfall is simply there — the...

Spout of Garnock: Ayrshire's Highest Waterfall The River Garnock rises on the southern slopes of the Hill of Stake, the highest summit in Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park, and barely has time to become a river before it falls off the edge of the moorland. About a mile...

Cauldron Snout: England's Longest Waterfall Most waterfalls announce themselves with a sudden vertical drop. Cauldron Snout does something different: it unrolls. From below, the River Tees is white and relentless for two hundred yards, cascading down the black...

Falls of Foyers: The Smoking Falls of Loch Ness When Robert Burns reached the Falls of Foyers in 1787 and looked down into the gorge, he saw what he described as "the horrid cauldron" — the deep, spray-filled amphitheatre at the base of the lower falls,...

Falls of Bruar: The Waterfall That a Poem Built When Robert Burns visited the Falls of Bruar in September 1787, the gorge was bare moorland. The falls were already beautiful — a series of cascades dropping through a narrow gorge of ancient Highland rock, with two...