Thornton Force

Thornton Force is arguably the most spectacular of the waterfalls seen on the impressive Waterfalls Walk at Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales.

This is a textbook case of geological unconformity, the river plunging over a cliff of horizontal strata Great Scar Limestone which overlays much older Ordovician Ingleton slates, and is a direct result of the Craven Fault which dominates the scenery of the western dales.

Above Thornton Force is Raven Ray - a bank of glacial moraine left behind by the glacier which edged down Kingsdale at the end of the last ice age.

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