Moss Force

54.545509 -3.248906Coordinates: 54 ° 32 '44 " N , 3 ° 14' 56" W.

Moss Force

Moss Force (also Newlands Home Waterfall ) is a waterfall in the Lake District , Cumbria , England . The waterfall lies in the course of the Keskadale Beck below the Buttermere Moss west of the Robinson Fell and falls down the mountain to the Newlands Pass , from where it is easy to reach.

The waterfall falls in three steps to a total height of 100 m. In winter it is possible to practice ice climbing at the waterfall . The route is also divided into three sections with a difficulty level of WI3 .

The Lake Poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge described the waterfall in a letter to Sara Hutchinson as an image of the "shadow of God and the world."

Individual evidence

↑ "Newlands Home Waterfall," in: Davison, Brian; Stephen Reid, Bob Bennett. Lake District winter climbs: snow, ice and mixed climbs in the English Lake District . Cicerone Press, 2006. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-85284-484-4
↑ Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Sara Hutchinson, August 25, 1802, in: Earl Leslie Griggs, Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 1801-1806. , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. pp. 852-853. ISBN 978-0-19-818743-1 . Here also online

[1] "Newlands Home Waterfall," in: Davison, Brian; Stephen Reid, Bob Bennett. Lake District winter climbs: snow, ice and mixed climbs in the English Lake District . Cicerone Press, 2006. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-85284-484-4

[2] Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Sara Hutchinson, August 25, 1802, in: Earl Leslie Griggs, Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 1801-1806. , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. pp. 852-853. ISBN 978-0-19-818743-1 . Here also online