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...
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...