Vale - Definition and Overview

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:

• United States of America
  • Cedar Vale, Kansas
  • Kenton Vale, Kentucky
  • La Vale, Maryland
  • Meadow Vale, Kentucky
  • Montvale, New Jersey
  • Northvale, New Jersey
  • River Vale, New Jersey
  • Union Vale, New York
  • Vale, North Carolina
  • (also note Vail, Colorado, spelled differently)

• Great Britain
  • Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Eagle Vale, New South Wales, Wales
  • Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
  • Vale of Glamorgan, Glamorgan, Wales
  • Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire England
  • Vale Royal, Cheshire, North West England

Other Vales

• Jerry Vale (singer)
• Maida Vale (road)
• Maida Vale tube station
• Raúl Vale (singer)
• Taff Vale Railway
• Vale FM (radio)
• Vale tudo (fighting style)

See also: List of landforms.