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.

List of vales

• Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England
• Castle Vale, Birmingham, 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

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
  • (also note Vail, Colorado, spelled differently)

• Great Britain
  • Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Eagle Vale, New South Wales, Wales
  • Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
  • Vale of Glamorgan, Glamorgan, Wales
  • Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire England
  • Vale Royal, Cheshire, North West England

Other Vales

• Jerry Vale (singer)
• Maida Vale (road)
• Maida Vale tube station
• Raúl Vale (singer)
• Taff Vale Railway
• Vale FM (radio)
• Vale tudo (fighting style)

See also: List of landforms.