Vale
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In geography a vale is a wide river valley, usually with a particularly wide flood plain or flat valley bottom. Vales commonly occur between the scarp slopes of pairs of chalk downs, where the chalk dome has been eroded, exposing less resistant underlying rock, usually clay.
List of vales
- Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England
- Castle Vale, Birmingham, England
- Trent Vale, Staffordshire, England
- Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire, England
- Vale of Leven, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
- Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England
- Vale of Siddim (biblical)
- Vale of York, Yorkshire, England
Political divisions (towns, cities, districts, counties) named Vale or containing Vale in their names include:
Other Vales
- Jerry Vale (singer)
- Maida Vale (road)
- Maida Vale tube station
- Raśl Vale (singer)
- Taff Vale Railway
- Vale FM (radio)
- Vale tudo (fighting style)
See also: List of landforms.