GorgesOther sights

A wooded gorge south of Beddgelert where the Afon Glaslyn tumbles through, followed by the Fisherman's Path.

Gwynedd

Wooded limestone valley where a stream sinks underground on its way to Pwlldu Bay.

Swansea

Rocky Mendip valley of tumbled limestone crags whose 'Rock of Ages' cleft is said to have inspired the hymn.

Somerset

The largest ancient woodland in north-east England, a deep wooded ravine running down to the coast at Horden.

County Durham

Dry limestone gorge cut into the hill behind Castleton, overlooked by the keep of Peveril Castle.

Derbyshire

Britain's largest gorge, a 400-foot limestone canyon cut through the Mendips with a cliff-edge road, show caves and clifftop walks.

Somerset

Deep limestone dale where the Wye squeezes between crags, crossed by stepping stones beneath overhanging cliffs.

Derbyshire

Steep wooded gorge cut by the River Clydach between Brynmawr and Abergavenny, with waterfalls, cascades and ancient beechwoods.

Monmouthshire

Celebrated limestone ravine on the River Dove, its famous stepping stones crossing below the cone of Thorpe Cloud.

Staffordshire

A narrow tree-hung ravine on the Afon Conwy near Betws-y-Coed, reached by a short riverside path.

Conwy

A seventy-foot sandstone slot canyon running blood-red water over a mossy pulpit rock — famous from Outlander, and genuinely dangerous to enter.

Stirling

A towering limestone ravine with twin waterfalls, its overhanging walls a magnet for artists and writers for centuries.

North Yorkshire

National Trust wooded gorge of the Hebden Water, threaded with paths past the old Gibson Mill.

West Yorkshire

A limestone chasm nearly a kilometre long and 26 metres deep in Nidderdale, threaded by paths, bridges and caves.

North Yorkshire

Quiet limestone dale and national nature reserve, its clear river rising from cave mouths and flowing past old lead workings.

Derbyshire

The deepest gorge in the South West, its path threading past the White Lady waterfall and the Devil's Cauldron whirlpool.

Devon

The full River Wharfe squeezed into a channel a stride wide at Bolton Abbey — beautiful, hypnotic, and reckoned unsurvivable if you go in.

North Yorkshire

A narrow, steep-walled limestone gorge above Appletreewick, wrapped in local legends of a spectral hound.

North Yorkshire

Dramatic limestone cleft climbing out of Castleton between towering pinnacles, its name a worn form of 'wind gates'.

Derbyshire