[2] Kinder Downfall is the tallest waterfall in the Peak District, with a 30-metre (98 ft) fall.

[5] When frozen in hard winters, the waterfall is a venue for ice-climbing,[6] and it is also the highlight of a fell race that bears its name.

Abram Kellett of Ealing was contracted to build a masonry dam and a standard-gauge railway to convey materials and workers to the site (though some navvies and their families lived in temporary huts built a short distance down the valley).

Work started in 1903 but geological difficulties prompted suspension of construction in 1905 and eventually a change in design to a clay/earth dam.

[8] Kinder Reservoir has a capacity of approximately 2,289,000,000 litres (504,000,000 imp gal) and a surface area of 17.83 hectares (44.1 acres).