Cautley Spout

Cautley Spout

Infobox Waterfall
name = Cautley Spout


height = 175m
location = Cumbria, England
coordinates = coord|54|22|21|N|2|29|30|W
watercourse = River Rawthey

Cautley Spout is England's highest waterfall above ground.Fact|date=March 2008 (Gaping Gill on Ingleborough falls a greater distance into a pothole). The broken cascade of falls tumbles 580 feet (175 m) down a cliff face at the head of a wild and bleak glacial valley that comes down from a high plateau called The Calf. It is located in the Howgill Fells, traditionally in the West Riding of Yorkshire but now in Cumbria on the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The waterfall is just north of the small town of Sedbergh. This fall is one of the few cascade falls in England; most are either tiered or plunge falls.


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