In Yorkshire, England, there's a giant estate that belongs to a duke.

It's called Bolton Abbey, and it's a beautiful place.

There's an ancient Gothic church called the Bolton Priory.

There's a forest filled with oak trees, and cutting through everything is the River

Wharf.

Near the church.

The river seems quiet, gentle even.

There's some stepping stones across the river, and on nice days, you'll see children jumping

from stone to stone.

But upstream, deep within the woods, there's a place where the Wharf River narrows, and

the two sides of the riverbank come close together over the rushing water.

It still looks relatively peaceful.

But this is nothing like those downstream stepping stones.

Legend has it that everyone who falls into the river here dies.

I'm Annie Ubank, and this is Atlas Obscura, an exploration of the world's strange,

wondrous, and in today's episode, terrifying places.

The Bolton Strait, this small section of the River Wharf, is often called the deadliest

body of water on Earth.

Today, we're dive again to see if there's any truth to the legend.

After this.

You probably learned a little romantic poetry in school.

Maybe some William Wordsworth.

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