Cauldron Snout
{{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
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| height = 60 m
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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 {{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,{{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.}}
{{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.}}
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
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:Landforms of County Durham
Category:Waterfalls of England
Category:Tourist attractions in County Durham
Category:Tourist attractions in Cumbria
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