High Force
High Force is a waterfall on the River Tees, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, England. The waterfall is within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the European Geopark.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall on the River Tees in County Durham, England
- Also known as: “The High Force”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Low Force.
Low Force
Waterfall
Low Force is an 18-foot high set of falls on the River Tees, England, UK. Further upstream is the High Force waterfall. Low Force is also the site of the Wynch Bridge, completed in 1830.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forest-in-Teesdale and Bowlees.
Forest-in-Teesdale
Hamlet
Forest-in-Teesdale is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated in upper Teesdale, on the north side of the Tees between Newbiggin and Langdon Beck, and is in the civil parish of Forest and Frith.
Bowlees
Hamlet
Bowlees is a small village in County Durham, England. It is situated near Newbiggin, on the other side of Teesdale from Holwick. The visitor centre in the village was formerly run by the Durham Wildlife Trust. Bowlees is situated 1½ miles east of High Force.
Holwick
Hamlet
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holwick is a hamlet and civil parish in Teesdale, County Durham, England. Located in the Pennine hills, the hamlet consists of a few houses spread along a road in the pattern of a linear settlement. Holwick is situated 2 miles southeast of High Force.
High Force
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and body of water
- Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.65031° or 54° 39′ 1″ northLongitude
-2.18765° or 2° 11′ 16″ westElevation
1,024 feet (312 metres)Height
95 feet (29 metres)Open location code
9C6VMR26+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 29537178OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Western Panjabi—“High Force” goes by many names.
- Breton: “High Force”
- Cebuano: “The High Force”
- Chinese: “高瀑布”
- Czech: “High Force”
- Dutch: “High Force”
- French: “High Force”
- German: “High Force”
- Irish: “High Force”
- Japanese: “ハイフォース滝”
- Lithuanian: “Hai Forso krioklys”
- Lithuanian: “High Force krioklys”
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار های فورس”
- Mazanderani: “های فورس ئوشار”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “High Force”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “High Force”
- Norwegian: “High Force”
- Persian: “آبشار های فورس”
- Persian: “ابشار های فورس”
- Spanish: “High Force”
- Swedish: “The High Force”
- Tajik: “Обшорҳои Форсе”
- Tajik: “Форсе”
- Tajik: “Шаршараҳои Форсе”
- Urdu: “ہائی فورس”
- Western Panjabi: “ہائی فورس”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “High Force”. Photo: StoatBringer, Public domain.