This picture contains all the features so common to the Pennines, especially the Yorkshire Dales — classic limestone scenery, the farmed landscape of drystone walls, field barns, flower-rich hay meadows, stone-built villages and the wider expanses of moorland, all of which help to make the area so special. Let’s look at each of these elements in turn.
Limestone is the key to understanding much of what goes on at Malham. The most notable feature in the photograph is Malham Cove. This is in fact a dry waterfall exposing a curved cliff, over 76 metres high, of Great Scar Limestone. At the end of the Ice Age torrents of water poured over a fault in the limestone, eroding the hard rock back to the limestone plateau.
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