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High Force is a waterfall on the River Tees, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, England. [1] The waterfall is within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the European Geopark. The whole of the River Tees plunges 70 feet (21 m) [2] over a precipice (an almost vertical cliff edge) in two stages. After heavy rainfall the ...
It is well upstream of the High Force waterfall, and is on the boundary between County Durham and Cumbria (historically Westmorland), England. The waterfall lies within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and European Geopark. It is more a long cataract than a waterfall, and at 200 yards (180 m) long, reckoned to be the ...
Hardraw Force (OS grid ref: ) is a waterfall on Hardraw Beck in Hardraw Scar, a wooded ravine just outside the hamlet of Hardraw, 0.9 miles (1.5 km) north of the town of Hawes, Wensleydale, in the Yorkshire Dales. [1] The Pennine Way long distance footpath passes close by.
Low Force. Low Force is an 18-foot (5.5m) high set of falls on the River Tees, England, UK. Further upstream is the High Force waterfall. [1] Low Force is also the site of the Wynch Bridge, completed in 1830. It is suggested by signs at each end that only one person at a time should cross the bridge as it may be unstable. [citation needed]
The great majority of named falls in England are situated in the Lake District and Pennines. In these regions the terms ‘foss’ and ‘force’ are much the most common ones used for a waterfall though linn is also encountered towards the Scottish border. The term ‘spout’ is another frequently found alternative.
The list of highest waterfalls is often controversial, due to the ambiguity of whether to measure the single largest fall or the sum of a series of falls, and many falls make false claims to the record.
The broken cascade of falls tumbles a total of 650 feet (198 m) [1] down a cliff face at the head of a wild and bleak glacial valley that comes down from a high plateau called The Calf. It is located in the Howgill Fells , traditionally in the West Riding of Yorkshire but now in the administrative county of Cumbria on the western edge of the ...
Scaleber Force (also known as Scaleber Foss and Scaleber Waterfall), is a 40-foot (12 m) high waterfall on Stockdale Beck, later the Long Preston Beck, that feeds into the River Ribble between Settle and Long Preston in North Yorkshire, England. The waterfall is the result of geological faulting (part of the South Craven Fault) and is a popular ...