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Ingleton Waterfalls Trail is a well-known circular trail beginning and ending in the village of Ingleton in the English county of North Yorkshire, now maintained by the Ingleton Scenery Company. It is claimed that the trail, some 8 kilometres (5 mi) long, and with a vertical rise of 169 m (554 feet) has some of the most spectacular waterfall ...
Beneath Keld Head, the river changes its name to the River Twiss. It has two notable waterfalls, Thornton Force and Pecca Falls, and its course follows part of the Ingleton Waterfalls Walk, [1] then through Swilla Glen to Thornton in Lonsdale and down to Ingleton, where it meets the River Doe to form the River Greta.
near Elsdon and Harwood Forest: Light Spout: Cardingmill Brook: Long Mynd: Lindhope Linn: Lindhope Burn near Kidland Forest: Linhope Spout: Linhope Burn near Linhope, west of Ingram: Linton Falls: River Wharfe: near Grassington: Lodore Falls: Watendlath Beck: south of Derwent Water: Low Ash Gill Scar: Ash Gill near Marsett, Raydale
A path leads from a doorway in the wall to the open shaft, some 61 metres (200 ft) long and up to 15 metres (49 ft) wide. The underground Winterscales Beck emerges from a passage at the north end, and falls some 20 metres (66 ft) down the shaft. The top of the waterfall is overhung by a massive wedged boulder known as Mohammed's Coffin.
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. This table lists above-ground waterfalls by tallest single drop (not necessarily unbroken).
Ingleton has a community open air swimming pool which was created in 1933 by a group of workers which included miners from new Ingleton colliery. [63] Ingleton Primary school uses the community pool to host annual swimming gala's. Ingleton community pool is open in the summer but closed in the winter and autumn.
Comprising a single drop of 100 feet (30 m) from a rocky overhang, Hardraw Force is claimed to be England's highest unbroken waterfall [note 1] [2] – at least discounting underground falls. The underground waterfall inside nearby Gaping Gill on the western flank of Ingleborough has an unbroken fall of more than 300 feet (91 m).
The LNWR station closed and, for the first time, passengers could travel through Ingleton without changing trains. [8] The site of the former LNWR station was host to three LMS caravans in 1934 and 1935, four from 1936 to 1938 and finally two caravans in 1939. [9] On 30 January 1954, the station closed along with all passenger services on the ...