Lodore Falls

Lodore Falls is a waterfall in Cumbria, England, close to Derwentwater and downstream from Watendlath.

The falls are located on the beck that flows from Watendlath Tarn, and tumble more than 100 feet (30 m) over a steep cascade into the Borrowdale Valley.

Among these broken rocks the stream finds its way through a fall of at least a hundred feet; and in heavy rains, the water is every way suited to the grandeur of the scene.

[5] By the time of Joseph Budworth's tour of the local area in 1792, a public house had been built in front of the falls.

[6] A famous onomatopoeic poem, "Cataract of Lodore", written by Robert Southey in 1820, was inspired by the falls, and he seems to have fixed the spelling of the name.