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{{Short description|Cascade on River Tees}}
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| name = Cauldron Snout
| photo = Cauldron_Snout_-_July_2006.jpg
| photo_caption = Looking downstream
| location = [[County Durham]]/[[Cumbria]] ([[Westmorland]]), [[England]]
| type = 
| height = 60 m
| height_longest = 
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'''Cauldron Snout''' is a [[waterfall|cascade]] on the upper reaches of the [[River Tees]] in [[Northern England]], immediately below the dam of the [[Cow Green Reservoir]]. It is well upstream of the [[High Force]] waterfall, and is on the boundary between [[County Durham]] and [[Cumbria]] (historically [[Westmorland]]), England. The waterfall lies within the [[North Pennines]] Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ([[AONB]]) and [[European Geopark]].

It is more a long cataract than a waterfall, and at {{convert|200|yards}} long, reckoned to be the longest waterfall in England.

It is impressive by the scale of the British landscape, and attracts a lot of visitors, despite the {{convert|3|km|mi|adj=on}} walk from the nearest car park at Cow Green Reservoir. No fee is payable {{As of|2020|lc=on}}. The [[Pennine Way]] takes in Cauldron Snout.

The falls are caused by the upper Tees passing over [[dolerite]] steps of the [[Whin Sill]].

==In art and literature==
An engraving of a painting of the cataract by [[Thomas Allom]] was published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835 with a poetical illustration thereon, Caldron Snout.—Westmorland, or 'Long years have past since last I stood', by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]],<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA44|section=picture and poetical illustration|pages=44-45|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref>
{{wikisource|Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/Caldron Snout.—Westmorland|'Caldron Snout.—Westmorland',<br>a poetical illustration<br /> by L. E. L.}}

In W H Auden’s long poem ’Letter to Elizabeth Meyer’ published in 1941 he looks back to the impact this part of England had on him during  family holidays in Weardale:

” Always my boyhood wish returns 

To those peat-stained deserted burns 

That feed the Wear and Tyne and Tees, 

And, turning states to strata, sees 

How basalt long oppressed broke out 

In wild revolt at Cauldron Snout”

==See also==
* [[List of waterfalls]]
* [[List of waterfalls in the United Kingdom]]

==References==
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== External links ==
{{wikisource|Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/Caldron Snout.—Westmorland|'Caldron Snout.—Westmorland', a poetical illustration by L. E. L.}}
* [http://www.explorenorthpennines.org.uk/sites/default/files/activity/downloads/enp076.pdf Moor House Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve]
* [http://www.explorenorthpennines.org.uk/teesdale3 Explore North Pennines - Teesdale]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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* [http://www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/Co.Durham/CauldronSnoutandCronkleyScar/Hiking%20Pages%20-%20Cauldron%20Snout%20and%20Cronkley%20Scar.htm Walk to Cauldron Snout]
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[[Category:Tees catchment|WCauldronSnout]]
[[Category:Landforms of County Durham]]
[[Category:Landforms of Cumbria]]
[[Category:Waterfalls of England]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in County Durham]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Cumbria]]
[[Category:Dufton]]


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