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.

In Latin, vale means be strong, a way of saying good-bye. The plural form is valete.

List of vales

• Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England
• Castle Vale, Birmingham, England
• Maida Vale, London, 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
• The Vale, Birmingham, 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
  • Vale, Oregon
  • (also note Vail, Colorado, spelled differently)

• United Kingdom
  • Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
  • Vale of Glamorgan, Glamorgan, Wales
  • Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire England
  • Vale Royal, Cheshire, North West England

• Georgia
  • Vale, Georgia

See also

• Dale
• List of landforms

Landforms