Gordale Scar is a limestone ravine north-east of Malham, North Yorkshire, England. which on leaving the gorge flows over Janet's Foss before joining Malham Beck downstream to form the River Aire. A right of way leads up the gorge, but requires climbing approximately of tufa at the lower waterfall.
Gordale Scar is situated within the protected area: Malham-Arncliffe SSSI.
Notable visitors
William Wordsworth wrote in the sonnet Gordale, "let thy feet repair to Gordale chasm, terrific as the lair where the young lions couch".
The waterfall was used as an exterior filming location in the 1982 film The Dark Crystal. Goredale Scar appears in the Netflix series The Witcher (S2 E3: "What is Lost").
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File:Gordale scar from bottom.jpg|The entrance to the ravine
File:Goredale2.jpg|The first hurdle..
File:Goredale scar waterfall.jpg|The upper waterfall
File:James Ward - Gordale Scar (A View of Gordale, in the Manor of East Malham in Craven, Yorkshire, the Property of Lord Ribblesdale) - Google Art Project.jpg|Gordale Scar, 1814 painting by James Ward
File:GordaleScarValley.jpg|The valley just downstream from Gordale Scar.
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See also
- List of waterfalls
- List of waterfalls in England
References
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