Waterfalls in CumbriaCumbria, England

The Lake District's most visited waterfall, plunging 65 feet beneath a Victorian stone bridge in the landscaped glen above Ullswater.

Glenridding

A wide North Pennine waterfall near Garrigill with a path leading behind the curtain of water.

Garrigill

A string of pools and small falls on the beck above Stonethwaite, a much-loved wild-swimming spot known as the Fairy Glen.

Stonethwaite

The highest single fall in the Lake District, dropping some 170 feet down a mossy cleft in the fells above Buttermere.

Buttermere

A 70-foot two-stage fall in wooded ravine a short walk behind Ambleside, reached by an easy railed path.

Ambleside

England's highest cascade above ground, a ribbon of water spilling 180 metres down the Howgills above Sedbergh.

Sedbergh

A wooded 40-foot fall in several stages on the Brathay in Little Langdale, one of the more easily reached falls.

Little Langdale

A hidden 60-foot fall dropping into a rocky chasm above the Old Dungeon Ghyll in Great Langdale.

Chapel Stile

Borrowdale waterfall spilling through boulders behind the Lodore hotel, made famous by Robert Southey's tumbling poem.

Grange-in-Borrowdale

A pretty fall in the grounds of Rydal Hall, framed by a 17th-century viewing house said to be England's oldest.

Rydal

A short, powerful fall where the combined Brathay and Langdale Beck force through the rocks at Skelwith Bridge.

Skelwith Bridge

A white staircase of water tumbling off Base Brown above Seathwaite, England's wettest inhabited place.

Seatoller

A ladder of cascades climbing the fellside from the Langdale road up to Stickle Tarn below Pavey Ark.

Chapel Stile

A tall, plunging fall in upper Borrowdale on the walkers' route to Sty Head and the high central fells.

Seatoller

A limestone ravine and waterfalls on the beck at Caldbeck, past the ruin of a bobbin mill that once held a huge water wheel.

Caldbeck

A string of cascades tumbling down Glen Mary from Tarn Hows towards Yew Tree Tarn, an easy family walk.

Little Langdale

A long ribbon of falls on the northern flank of Skiddaw, reached by an old track from the Bassenthwaite fells.

Uldale