Cotter Force
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Cotter Force is a small waterfall on Cotterdale Beck, a minor tributary of the River Ure, near the mouth of Cotterdale, a side dale in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England.[1]
The Falls and Cotterdale Beck
Cotterdale Beck has several other smaller falls in its course before joining the Ure, but Cotter Force is the largest.[2] The force is not visible from the road, but it takes only a short walk to reach it. It comprises a series of six steps each its own small waterfall with the largest single drop being about Script error: No such module "convert"..[3] The force is narrower at Script error: No such module "convert". at the top widening to Script error: No such module "convert". at the bottom.[4] A short path allows easy access from the A684 near Holme Heads Bridge approximately Script error: No such module "convert". west of Hawes.
After the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust carried out an upgrade to its footpath, Cotter Force is now accessible to wheelchair users and less mobile visitors.[5][6]
References to the Force
The artist J. M. W. Turner sketched here in July 1816 for his Yorkshire Sketchbook.[7] The noted 19th-century etching artist Richard Samuel Chattock is known to have created two works of Cotter Force in 1864. Both etchings now reside in The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.[8]
See also
References
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