Ingleton Waterfalls Trail

The path drops into a ravine so deep the sunlight turns green, and from the mossy darkness comes the sound of water falling through rock. The Ingleton Waterfalls Trail threads two river valleys where the geology shifts underfoot from slate to limestone and back.

The trail runs about four and a half miles along the Rivers Twiss and Doe through glacially carved valleys, waterfall after waterfall — Pecca Falls, Thornton Force, Beezley Falls — each bigger and louder than the last. At Thornton Force the water drops fourteen metres over a geological unconformity, ancient slate under younger limestone, one of the most legible geological boundaries in England, read in a single glance at the overhang. The route has been a maintained paying attraction since 1885, when the village improvement society first cleared and bridged the gorges; boardwalks and steps keep boots mostly above the mud, though the Doe valley descent turns slick after rain. Ingleborough, one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, rises directly above — the waterfalls serve as its gentler understudy.