Scale Force, Lake District National Park

Name: Scale Force
Address: Lake District National Park, United Kingdom

#11 among attractions in Lake District National Park

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Scale Force is considered the highest waterfall in the English Lake District. Opinions vary about how its precise height is calculated, but the total height is normally stated as 170 feet. It lies on the stream Scale Beck. ()

Elevation: 807 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 54°32'30"N, 3°18'53"W

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Lake District National Park United Kingdom

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Scale Force – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Crummock Water, Bleaberry Tarn, Red Pike, Rannerdale Knotts.

1.2 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Crummock Water
32 min walk • Crummock Water is a lake in the Lake District in Cumbria, North West England situated between Buttermere to the south and Loweswater to the north. Crummock Water is 2.5 miles long, 0.6 miles wide and 140 feet deep. The River Cocker is considered to start at the north of the lake, before then flowing into Lorton Vale.
1.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Bleaberry Tarn
36 min walk • Bleaberry Tarn is a small natural mountain tarn near Buttermere in the English Lake District. Located at NY165154, it lies in a corrie below the Lakeland fells of Red Pike and High Stile, backed by Chapel Crags on the ridge between them.
1.2 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Red Pike
31 min walk • Red Pike is a fell in the High Stile range in the western English Lake District, which separates Ennerdale from the valley of Buttermere and Crummock Water. It is 2,476 ft high.
1.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Rannerdale Knotts
33 min walk • Rannerdale Knotts is a fell in the Lake District of Cumbria, England. Rising from the Buttermere valley, it is one of the smaller Cumbrian hills and is overlooked by a number of surrounding fells, such as Grasmoor, Whiteless Pike and, across Crummock Water, Mellbreak and the High Stile ridge.
1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Starling Dodd, Lake District National Park
25 min walk • Starling Dodd is a fell in the western part of the English Lake District, located between the valleys of Ennerdale and Buttermere, on the ridge between Great Borne to its west and Red Pike to its east.
1.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hen Comb, Lake District National Park
34 min walk • Hen Comb is a fell in the west of the English Lake District. One of the Loweswater Fells it lies to the south of Loweswater lake and Loweswater village. Although of only moderate height, its ascent can be difficult as it is largely surrounded by bogs.
1 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Mellbreak, Lake District National Park
25 min walk • Mellbreak is a hill in the Western part of the English Lake District. Despite being surrounded on all sides by higher fells, it stands in isolation.