Cauldron Falls or West Burton Falls, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, UK
by Neale And Judith Clark
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Cauldron Falls or West Burton Falls, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, UK
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Neale And Judith Clark
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Wensleydale - West Burton falls or Cauldron Falls with fall colors/autumn colours Wensleydale Yorkshire Dales national park North Yorkshire England UK GB Europe
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Cauldron Falls (also known as West Burton falls), is a series of waterfalls on Walden Beck in the village of West Burton, North Yorkshire, England. It is known as Cauldron Falls due to the swirls in the plunge pools beneath the cascades of the waterfall. The beck continues on underneath a packhorse bridge where there is another cascade.
The waterfall is located on the Walden Beck, a tributary of the River Ure, in West Burton, which traverses a fault in the bed of the shelving rock. The initial step of the waterfall is a steep cascade which flows east, then immediately south into a plunge pool.
The upper falls section is surround by a northfacing "limestone amphitheatre", over which the water falls.
The name Cauldron Falls, refers to the swirling effect of the water in the plunge pool below the main waterfall. The limestone was carved out by the movement of ice across the valley sideways, rather than the effect of melting ice running over it.
J. M. W. Turner painted the falls when he travelled through Wensleydale in 1816
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