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Falls of Glomach© Russel Wills / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
40 waterfalls across Scotland, the finest first, then every one county by county.
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One of Britain's highest waterfalls, dropping 113 metres into a remote Kintail gorge — earned by a strenuous ten-mile round walk.
Highland
Rapids tearing straight through Killin village beneath an eighteenth-century bridge, with the burial isle of Clan Macnab just downstream.
Stirling
Chain of crystal-clear turquoise pools and falls on the River Brittle beneath the Black Cuillin at Glenbrittle.
NTS woodland of giant Douglas firs where Ossian's Hall folly overlooks the Black Linn falls on the Braan.
Perth and Kinross
A 60-metre tail of water hanging in the Moffat hills, with wild goats on the crags and Loch Skeen hidden in the hanging valley above.
Dumfries and Galloway
Basalt sea cliff banded like a kilt, with the Mealt burn plunging straight into the sea beside a viewpoint.
An Steall Bàn, 'the white spout' — a 120-metre ribbon at the head of the Nevis gorge, among the highest falls in Britain and the easiest of them to reach.
A big waterfall — the literal meaning of its Gaelic name — dropping through a deep, sheer gorge on the Allt Coire Banachdich, high in Glen Brittle beneath the western Black Cuillin. Reached only on foot up the river, with the ridge filling the skyline above.
The gorge Robert Burns petitioned the Duke of Atholl in verse to plant with trees — the Duke obliged, and the falls now drop through the woods the poem asked for.
Corra Linn, greatest of the four Falls of Clyde, painted by Turner and reached on foot from the World Heritage mill village of New Lanark.
South Lanarkshire
The 165-foot fall above Loch Ness that Robert Burns versified in 1787 — at its best after rain, when the hydro scheme upstream lets it thunder.
Rocky gorge west of Braemar where the young Dee squeezes through a narrow chasm, spanned by an 1857 bridge.
Aberdeenshire
A 46-metre plunge among some of Britain's tallest Douglas firs near Tomich, with a Victorian viewing platform hung directly over the lip.
Salmon-leap falls on the Black Water near Contin — from the suspension bridge you can watch fish throw themselves at the drop in late summer.
Wooded gorge of the Moness Burn with tumbling falls, immortalised in a Robert Burns song.
Powerful fall on the River Falloch in Glen Falloch near Crianlarich, plunging into a deep dark pool.
Waterfall dropping through a tree-lined gorge to the sea on the Trotternish coast, with a viewing platform.
Powerful joined falls of the River Isla plunging into a wooded gorge north of Alyth.
Angus
Long series of cascades tumbling down the hillside above Little Loch Broom near Dundonnell.
Wooded gorge walk behind Golspie leading to a footbridge below a tumbling waterfall.
Series of falls on the Keltie Water in a wooded glen above Callander, reached by a short forest walk to a footbridge.
Fifteen-metre waterfall in a rocky amphitheatre a short walk inland from Clashnessie Bay.
High plunge waterfall on the Divach Burn above Drumnadrochit, glimpsed from a woodland viewpoint near Lewiston.
Tumbling rapids and pools where the River Affric squeezes through pinewood-clad rocks in Glen Affric.
Dramatic wooded gorge of the Burns of Care and Sorrow climbing below Castle Campbell, with a string of falls.
Clackmannanshire
Britain's highest waterfall, plunging around 200m from the moors above Loch Beag near Kylesku.
RSPB reserve behind Rosemarkie where a wooded burn drops over two waterfalls on an easy half-hour walk.
Burn tumbling through a wooded ravine above Loch Tay, viewed from the Hermitage grotto.
Rocky salmon-leaping rapids on the Water of Feugh at Banchory, watched from an old road bridge.
Powerful cascade on the River Kirkaig south of Lochinver, reached by a riverside walk under Suilven.
Rocky river falls near Lairg where Atlantic salmon leap upstream in summer, with a visitor centre and woodland walks.
Pretty Highland waterfall reached by a sheltered woodland walk up Flowerdale Glen behind Gairloch.
Dramatic two-tier waterfall on the Iorsa Water above Whiting Bay on Arran, reached by a woodland walk past Iron Age forts.
North Ayrshire
A tributary of the Palnure Burn dropping in a series of falls at Talnotry in Galloway Forest Park, reached by a short trail.
Tall wooded waterfall reached by a short walk above Kinlochleven at the head of Loch Leven.
Rocky falls of the River Moriston framed by Thomas Telford's old stone bridge, reached on short woodland paths.
NTS riverside where the Tummel and Garry meet in a series of rapids and falls near Pitlochry.
Ninety-foot ribbon fall on the River Endrick about two miles from Fintry, among Scotland's most photogenic.
Two-tiered waterfall on the Abhainn Garbhaig above Loch Maree, named for Queen Victoria's 1877 visit.
Thirty-metre cascade plunging from Loch na Gainmhich into a steep gorge just off the road near Kylesku.
