Malham: The Cove, Gordale Scar and the Limestone Pavement
Yorkshire and the Humber, England
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Malham: The Cove, Gordale Scar and the Limestone Pavement
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Malham Cove is a curved limestone cliff 80m high with a pavement of clints and grikes along its top, left when the ice went. A mile east, Gordale Scar cuts into the hills as a gorge with waterfalls in its throat, and Janet's Foss drops into a pool on Gordale Beck, on the path from Malham village to the Scar.
Required Activities
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of 4
Walk up to Malham Cove, the 80m curved limestone cliff, and look up at its face from the beck
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of 4
Walk into Gordale Scar and look up at the falls
3
of 4
Walk the limestone pavement on top of the Cove
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of 4
Follow the beck to Janet's Foss on the way round
Walk up to Malham Cove, the 80m curved limestone cliff, and look up at its face from the beck
Walk into Gordale Scar and look up at the falls
Walk the limestone pavement on top of the Cove
Follow the beck to Janet's Foss on the way round
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