Cautley Spout

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Cautley Spout

Location	Cumbria, England
Coordinates	54°22′21″N 2°29′30″W / 54.3725, -2.49167
Total height	175m
Watercourse	River Rawthey

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Cautley Spout is England's highest waterfall above ground.^{[citation needed]} (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.

Notable visitors include the cricketer Alfred Kelly, who described the scene: "A picture could not portray this beauty, even if the picture was indeed perfect, for this perfection can only be seen firsthand".^{[citation needed]}