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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 escarpment slopes of pairs of chalk downs, where the chalk dome has been eroded, exposing less resistant underlying rock, usually clay.

List of vales

Political divisions (towns, cities, districts, counties) named Vale or containing Vale in their names include:

See also