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Henrhyd Falls: South Wales' Tallest Waterfall — and the Batcave The path descends steeply from the car park through sessile oak and ash woodland, and the sound of the water grows before the falls are visible. Then the gorge opens, and Henrhyd Falls drops the full...

Cotter Force: Wensleydale's Most Accessible Waterfall Most waterfall walks in the Yorkshire Dales involve a certain amount of commitment — boggy ground, uneven paths, steep descents, a scramble at the end. Cotter Force is different. A level, compacted stone path...

Brontë Waterfall: A Literary Pilgrimage on the Yorkshire Moors The path from Haworth leads you out of the cobbled streets, past the old church and through kissing gates, and into the wide, windswept moors of West Yorkshire — the same moors that Charlotte, Emily and...

Lodore Falls: The Cascade That Inspired a Poem Stand beside Lodore Falls after heavy rain and you begin to understand why Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate who lived at Greta Hall just up the road in Keswick, reached for so many words at once. Dashing and flashing and...

Scale Force: The Lake District's Highest Waterfall You hear the roar before you see it. Then the gorge opens, the trees close in from above, and a single white ribbon of water drops 120 feet in one clean plunge before gathering itself again and falling further...

Janet's Foss: The Fairy Queen's Waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales There is a moment, walking through the woodland on the path from Malham, when the trees close in, the sound of water rises, and a small but perfectly formed waterfall appears in a mossy dell ahead of you...

Cautley Spout: England's Highest Cascade Waterfall You are walking a level path through a broad, treeless valley when the Howgill Fells suddenly drop away on your left, and there — streaming down the whole face of the cliff — is Cautley Spout. Not a single...

Aysgarth Falls: Wensleydale's Three-Stage Waterfall You hear them before you see them. Walking down through Freeholders' Wood, the sound of the River Ure builds steadily until you round a bend and the whole river spreads itself across a series of broad...

Falls of Clyde: Scotland's Four Waterfalls on the River Clyde Stand at the Corra Linn viewpoint after heavy rain and the whole River Clyde seems to gather itself and throw itself over the edge — twenty-six metres of white water crashing into a wooded gorge, the...