Scale Force

54.543312 - 3.31292Koordinaten: 54 ° 32 ' 36 "N, 3 ° 18' 47 " W

Scale Force is a waterfall in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. The waterfall is in the course of the Beck Scale on the north flank of a formed by Starling Dodd and Red Pike mountain range above Crummock Water. Scale Force is considered with a total height of 51.80 m as the tallest waterfall in the Lake District. However, the water of the Scale Beck flows through several stages, the largest of which 36.60 m high and with a total drop of 100 m of Moss Force Waterfall is twice as high as the Scale Force waterfall.

The Lake Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described Scale Force in letters to Sara Hutchinson in August 1802 and it insisted that the trees, the waterfall, which he described as "proper Waterfall ", surrounded, not reduce its impression on the contrary, reinforce, because it, like the eyes of a mad man out schimmere meanwhile hair.

The waterfall can be reached from the village of Buttermere.