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30 waterfalls across Wales, the finest first, then every one county by county.
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Counted among the old Seven Wonders of Wales and usually called the country's tallest single-drop fall — a spout threading a natural rock arch above the Tanat valley.
Powys
Rhaeadr Fawr in Welsh — a 120-foot curtain off the northern Carneddau, an easy two-mile valley walk from Abergwyngregyn.
Gwynedd
The Afon Mynach drops around 90 metres in five stages through a wooded ravine at Devil's Bridge, among the highest falls in Wales.
Ceredigion
The 'fall of snow' on the Afon Hepste, star of Waterfall Country — the old sheep-drovers' ledge still leads dry-shod behind the curtain.
Series of rocky falls on the River Teifi at Cenarth, historically netted for salmon from coracles.
Carmarthenshire
The highest waterfall in south Wales at 90 feet, with a path behind the curtain — moonlighting on film as the mouth of the Batcave.
Wooded falls where the Afon Conwy drops through a rocky gorge near Betws-y-Coed, with a fish pass.
Conwy
Stepped waterfall on the Afon Mellte, first of the falls on the Four Waterfalls walk.
Fan-shaped fall on the Afon Pyrddin near Pontneddfechan, signposted as Lady Falls.
Neath Port Talbot
Series of cascades on the Afon Llugwy west of Betws-y-Coed, one of the most-visited falls in Eryri.
Series of cascades on the Nant Bwrefwr in the forest above Talybont Reservoir.
A tall fall on the Afon Arddu above Llanberis, crossed by the Snowdon Mountain Railway viaduct.
Three falls in a wooded ravine served by a Talyllyn Railway halt near Bryncrug.
The Afon Ffyddion drops around 70 feet over a limestone cliff in the centre of Dyserth village.
Denbighshire
80-foot waterfall on the Melin Court Brook in a wooded nature reserve south of Resolven.
One of the highest waterfalls in Wales, dropping around 21 metres at the head of the Rhondda Fawr.
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Falls on the Afon Cain in the Coed y Brenin forest north of Dolgellau, near the old Gwynfynydd gold mine.
Falls in a wooded gorge on the Afon Cynfal below Ffestiniog, with the pillar rock Pulpud Huw Llwyd.
Wooded black-rock falls on the Afon Gamlan at Ganllwyd, on National Trust land.
Falls on the young Afon Mawddach in Coed y Brenin, close to Pistyll Cain.
Lower fall on the Afon Nedd Fechan with a narrow main drop and side cascades.
Upper Gushing Falls on the Nedd Fechan, a powerful cascade in the Pontneddfechan gorges.
Tall, slender waterfall on the Afon Pyrddin, the furthest fall upstream from Pontneddfechan.
Wide cascade on the Afon Mellte below its upper falls.
Cascade near Dinas Rock at the eastern end of Waterfall Country.
Two-stage cascade on the Afon Mellte, 'the fall of the fuller', in Waterfall Country.
Cascades and plunge pools in Cwm Llan on the lower Watkin Path up Yr Wyddfa from Nant Gwynant.
A single fall of about 37 metres above Abergwyngregyn, reached by a valley walk from the car park.
Wooded waterfall above Llandogo where the Cleddon Shoots tumble down towards the Wye, near a viewpoint over the valley.
Monmouthshire
Tall single-drop waterfall in the Twymyn gorge below the former lead-mining village of Dylife.
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