Moss Force

Moss Force is a waterfall situated within the Lake District National Park in the English county of Cumbria.

The bottom cascade is smallest of the three, after which the Beck enters a small wooded gorge containing further smaller falls.

[3] The falls are visited by many motorists and passengers from some of the Lake District tour buses which stop at Newlands Hause.

The final 20-metre section is a less steep part of the Force at its very highest point,[5] which leads on to Buttermere Moss.

Coleridge recorded the visit in a private letter to Sara Hutchinson, saying of the upper cascade: Thomas West, in his Guide to the Lakes (1778), described the Force as "a mountain of purple coloured rock presenting a thousand chasms".