Waterfalls in EnglandEngland

Three broad flights of stepped falls carrying the River Ure over limestone shelves through wooded Wensleydale.

North Yorkshire

The Tees hurls itself 21 metres over the Whin Sill in a single roaring drop, one of England's mightiest falls.

County Durham

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

Cumbria

Wooded glen near Tintagel where the River Trevillet drops through a holed rock into a basin, St Nectan's Kieve.

Cornwall

A thirty-foot fall in the woods of Little Beck near Whitby, with a tea garden at its lip and the Hermitage — a boulder hollowed into a cell in 1790 — up the path.

North Yorkshire

England's highest unbroken waterfall above ground — a hundred-foot drop into a wooded amphitheatre, reached through the bar of the Green Dragon Inn.

North Yorkshire

A four-and-a-half-mile circuit of the Twiss and Doe gorges — Thornton Force, Pecca Falls and half a dozen more on England's most famous waterfall walk.

North Yorkshire

Bentley Brook stepping down through the ruined water mills of the Lumsdale valley above Matlock — industrial archaeology dissolving into a fern gorge.

Derbyshire

The packhorse bridge and pools where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet — once handy for prize-fighters dodging three county constabularies at once.

Staffordshire

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

Cumbria

A hidden two-stage fall in a wooded gorge above Stainforth, a favourite walk of the composer Elgar.

North Yorkshire

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

Cumbria

A mossy waterfall dropping into a woodland plunge pool near Malham, said to be home to the queen of the fairies.

North Yorkshire

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

Cumbria

A dramatic 40-foot fall tucked in a wooded ravine just outside Settle, best after rain.

North Yorkshire

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

Cumbria

The graceful Cauldron Falls dropping into a rocky pool below West Burton, painted by Turner on his Dales tours.

North Yorkshire

A natural cascade tumbling over mossy boulders through ancient oak woodland in the Bovey Valley on Dartmoor.

Devon

Moorland cascade and clapper bridge on the walk from Haworth out to Top Withens.

West Yorkshire

England's highest man-made waterfall, dropping 70 metres through Teign Valley woodland from a Victorian leat.

Devon

England's longest cascade, where the Tees tumbles some 60 metres in stepped falls below Cow Green.

County Durham

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

Cumbria

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

Cumbria

A gentle flight of stepped falls on Cotterdale Beck near Hawes, one of the most easily reached in the Dales.

North Yorkshire

A remote cascade high in the Cheviots above Alwinton, a reward at the end of a long moorland walk.

Northumberland

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

Cumbria

A pretty stepped fall by Keld where the Coast to Coast meets the Pennine Way at the top of Swaledale.

North Yorkshire

The county's signature fall, dropping some 18 metres in a single chute into a deep plunge pool hidden in the Breamish Valley.

Northumberland

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

Cumbria

A series of stepped cascades on the Tees below the Wynch Bridge, gentler sister to nearby High Force.

County Durham

Secluded waterfall and packhorse bridge in the wooded Crimsworth Dean above Hebden Bridge.

West Yorkshire

The tallest fall on the moors, a 70ft ribbon of water down a mossy ravine near Goathland.

North Yorkshire

A tall single fall in a fern-hung ravine a short walk from Askrigg, often overlooked by visitors.

North Yorkshire

A secluded curtain fall near Ford, close to the largest prehistoric rock-art panel in Northumberland.

Northumberland

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

Cumbria

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

Cumbria

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

Cumbria

A series of low falls on the Ribble beside an arched packhorse bridge, where salmon leap in autumn.

North Yorkshire

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

Cumbria

Curtain of water on Bow Lee Beck falling past a recess where an outlaw once hid, a short walk from Bowlees.

County Durham

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

Cumbria

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

Cumbria

A wooded cascade dropping into a dark pool on Eller Beck between Goathland and Beck Hole.

North Yorkshire

The showpiece of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, the Twiss tumbling 14 metres over a bar of ancient rock.

North Yorkshire

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

Cumbria

A wooded side valley on the Bolton Abbey estate with a slender waterfall, on the path to Simon's Seat.

North Yorkshire

A wide, low fall on the Swale below the crag of Cotterby Scar near Keld, a favourite paddling spot.

North Yorkshire

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

Cumbria