Cauldron Snout
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Cauldron Snout is a 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 Template:Convert 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 Template:Convert walk from the nearest car park at Cow Green Reservoir. No fee is payable Template:As of. 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,[1] Template:Wikisource/outer coreScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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
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External links
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- Moor House Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve
- Explore North Pennines - TeesdaleTemplate:Dead link
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- Walk to Cauldron Snout
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