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High Force is a waterfall on the River Tees, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, County Durham, England. The waterfall is within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and European Geopark.Despite popular belief that it is the highest waterfall in England, at 71ft, others have a longer fall: Cautley Spout, in Cumbria's Howgill Fells, is almost 590ft high, and Hardraw Force, in North Yorkshire, has an unbroken drop of 98ft; whilst underground, on the flanks of Ingleborough, Fell Beck falls an unbroken 315ft down the Jib Tunnel of Gaping Gill Hole. However, High Force does have the largest volume of water falling over an unbroken drop when in full spate, thereby earning its Nordic name 'High Fosse'.The whole of the River Tees plunges over a precipice (cliff edge which is almost vertical) in two stages. After heavy rainfall the River Tees will also flow over the dry right hand side channel, creating two falls. Very occasionally the river level be high enough to flow over the central section of rock, the last recorded time this happened was in December 2015 after Storm Desmond. In harsh winters the falls would freeze, creating cathedral-like ice formations.