Storm Desmond floods bring 260ft waterfall back to life

Flooding that has hit the north of England after Storm Desmond has reportedly brought an old waterfall back to life in Yorkshire.

Water was spotted gushing over Malham Cove, a limestone amphitheatre that is 262ft high and 984ft wide, for the first time in 70 years.

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Malham Cove is located in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the waterfall was caught on camera by local resident Stuart Gledhill on Sunday.

During the video, he said: "Well that's something that none of us in the village who have lived here all our lives have ever seen before. Wow."

Mr Gledhill told the BBC: "The waterfall drop was surveyed earlier this year by cave divers and was found to be 70.06m (230ft), making it briefly the highest single drop waterfall in England above ground."

According to Sky News., Alan Hulm, head of ranger services at the park, said the waterfall had dried up by Monday.

However, for a brief moment in time, it indeed was the highest single drop waterfall in England, beating its nearest rival Hardraw Force, also in the Yorkshire Dales, at 98ft high.

While this is a thing of beauty, Storm Desmond battered north west England, as well as parts of Northern Ireland, north Wales and southern Scotland, over the weekend.

Record-breaking amounts of rain fell in Cumbria, which was the worst-hit county, prompting it to declare a major incident.

On Monday night, around 43,000 homes were left without power.

Electricity North West said that most of the homes have now been reconnected.