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Vale

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

Vale Sandale, [http://www.my-vale.com]
Vale Tunnel, Raytown, Missouri
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
Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, England
The Vale, Birmingham, England
Vale of Kashmir, disputed territory, claimed by India

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

United States of America
Ballardvale, Massachusetts
Cedar Vale, Kansas
Kenton Vale, Kentucky
La Vale, Maryland
Meadow Vale, Kentucky
Millvale, Pennsylvania
Intervale, New Hampshire
Montvale, New Jersey
Northvale, New Jersey
River Vale, New Jersey
Sunnyvale, California
Swissvale, Pennsylvania
Union Vale, New York
Vale, North Carolina
Vale, Oregon
Vale, South Dakota
Vale Township, Butte County, South Dakota
(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 (former)
Guernsey
Vale, Guernsey, parish of Guernsey
Georgia
Vale, Georgia
Romania
Vale, Cluj, a village in Aluniş Commune, Cluj County
Vale, Harghita, a village in Topliţa, Harghita County
Vale, a village in Sălişte, Sibiu County

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Vale" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Esperanto, Dutch, Swedish.

Translation(s) in other languages: French: Vales, Portuguese: Vales, Romanian: Vale (dezambiguizare).


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