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Scale Force is considered the highest waterfall in the 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 (a Norse term for waterfall) – is hidden in a deep gorge on the northern flank of Red Pike. It lies south of Crummock Water and is near the village of Buttermere.[2]

William Wordsworth described Scale Force as "a fine chasm, with a lofty, though but slender, fall of water",[3] while 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 poem Scale Force, Cumberland. Letitia Elizabeth Landon writes "It sweeps, as sweeps an army Adown the mountain side, With the voice of many thunders, Like the battle’s sounding tide".

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Scale Force ist ein Wasserfall im Lake District, Cumbria, England. Der Wasserfall liegt im Lauf des Scale Beck an der Nordflanke einer von Starling Dodd und Red Pike gebildeten Bergkette oberhalb von Crummock Water. Scale Force gilt mit einer Gesamthöhe von 51,80 m als der höchste Wasserfall im Lake District. Das Wasser des Scale Beck fließt jedoch über mehrere Stufen, deren größte 36,60 m hoch ist und mit einer Gesamtfallhöhe von 100 m ist der Moss Force Wasserfall doppelt so hoch wie der Scale Force Wasserfall.

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