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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...

Steall Falls: Scotland's Second-Highest Waterfall You walk into the Nevis Gorge through dark, dripping woodland, the Water of Nevis crashing somewhere below your feet and steep crags pressing in on either side. Then, quite suddenly, the gorge opens — and there, across...

High Force: England's Biggest Waterfall There are taller waterfalls in England, but none quite like High Force. Here, the entire River Tees gathers itself and hurls over a cliff of ancient black rock, plunging some 21 metres into a churning plunge pool below....

Aira Force: The Lake District's Best-Loved Waterfall For three hundred years, people have walked into a wooded gorge above Ullswater to watch Aira Beck gather itself, slip beneath an old stone bridge, and hurl itself some twenty metres into the dark pool below....