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Grid Reference SD 897634

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Looking North, from the same position as Stop 1, showing Malham Cove set in the surrounding hills.

The Cove is 300m wide and 70m high. It was formed when a vast crack, the Craven Fault (lying east to west from Pately Bridge to Kirkby Lonsdale), formed in sedimentary rocks, causing faults which changed the shape of the land. In Malham powerful geological activity caused the land to split and slip away along the weak Mid-Craven Fault, leaving the exposed cliff face of Malham Cove

The path, visible on the left, leads to the bottom of the cliff and to the top of the Cove.

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