# Scale Force

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Waterfall in Cumbria, England

[54°32′36″N 3°18′49″W / 54.5432°N 3.3135°W / 54.5432; -3.3135](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Scale_Force&params=54.5432_N_3.3135_W_)

Scale Force

**Scale Force** is considered the highest [waterfall](/source/Waterfall) in the [English Lake District](/source/English_Lake_District). Opinions vary about how its precise height is calculated, but the total height is normally stated as 170 feet (51.8m).[1] It lies on the stream Scale Beck.

The waterfall – or [force](/source/Force) (a Norse term for waterfall) – is hidden in a deep gorge on the northern flank of [Red Pike](/source/Red_Pike_(Buttermere)). It lies south of [Crummock Water](/source/Crummock_Water) and is near the village of [Buttermere](/source/Buttermere%2C_Cumbria_(village)).[2]

[William Wordsworth](/source/William_Wordsworth) described Scale Force as "a fine chasm, with a lofty, though but slender, fall of water",[3] while [Samuel Taylor Coleridge](/source/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge) wrote, "Scale Force, the white downfall of which glimmered through the trees, that hang before it like the bushy hair over a madman's eyes."[4] In her poetical illustration [Scale Force, Cumberland](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon_(L._E._L.)_in_Fisher%27s_Drawing_Room_Scrap_Book,_1837/Scale_Force,_Cumberland)., to a painting by [Thomas Allom](/source/Thomas_Allom), [Letitia Elizabeth Landon](/source/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon) writes "It sweeps, as sweeps an army Adown the mountain side, With the voice of many claps of thunder, like the battle’s sounding tide".[5]

## See also

- [List of waterfalls](/source/List_of_waterfalls)

- [List of waterfalls in England](/source/List_of_waterfalls_in_England)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Trans_1-0)** Vukanovic, Marija Brala; Krstanovic, Irena Vodopija (2011). *The Global and Local Dimensions of English: Exploring Issues of Language and Culture*. Transaction Publishers. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-643-90073-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-643-90073-9).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Saturday_2-0)** ["Cascades in England"](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510028065196;view=1up;seq=268). *The Saturday Magazine* (32): 256. December 1832.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Wordsworth_3-0)** Owen, W. J. B.; Smyser, Jane Worthington, eds. (1974). *The prose works of William Wordsworth: Volume 2*. Clarendon Press. p. 164.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Coleridge_4-0)** Berkoben, L. D. (1975). [*Coleridge's decline as a poet*](https://archive.org/details/coleridgesdeclin0000berk). Mouton & Co. p. [54](https://archive.org/details/coleridgesdeclin0000berk/page/54). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [90-279-3431-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/90-279-3431-2).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1836). "poetical illustration". [*Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837*](https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA180). Fisher, Son & Co. p. 52.Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1836). "picture". [*Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837*](https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA182). Fisher, Son & Co.

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