Malham
Malham is a village in North Yorkshire set in karstic scenery: its best-known feature is the cliff of Malham Cove. In 2021 its population was just over 200, which includes the neighbouring smaller village of Kirkby Malham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 162 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Malham, North Yorkshire”
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Janet’s Foss and Malham National Park Visitor Centre.
Janet’s Foss
Waterfall
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Janet's Foss is a small waterfall near the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England. It carries Gordale Beck over a limestone outcrop topped by tufa into a deep pool below.
Malham National Park Visitor Centre
Tourism office
Photo: Gpwitteveen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Malham National Park Visitor Centre is a tourism office.
Gordale Scar
Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gordale Scar is a limestone ravine 1 mile north-east of Malham, North Yorkshire, England. It contains two waterfalls and has overhanging limestone cliffs over 330 feet high.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Malham Cove and Hanlith.
Malham Cove
Locality
Photo: Andy Jamieson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Malham Cove is a large curved limestone formation 0.6 miles north of the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England. It was formed by a waterfall carrying meltwater from glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age more than 12,000 years ago.
Hanlith
Hamlet
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Hanlith is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near Kirkby Malham and the tourist attraction of Malham Cove.
Kirkby Malham
Village
Kirkby Malham is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Situated in the Yorkshire Dales it lies 6 miles east of Settle.
Malham
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.0613° or 54° 3′ 41″ northLongitude
-2.1529° or 2° 9′ 10″ westPopulation
162Elevation
659 feet (201 metres)Open location code
9C6V3R6W+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 5230839509OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643159Wikidata ID
Q1247558
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“Malham” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Malham”
- Dutch: “Malham”
- French: “Malham”
- German: “Malham”
- Irish: “Malham”
- Italian: “Malham”
- Ladin: “Malham”
- Latin: “Malham”
- Latin: “Malhamensis Vicus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malham”
- Norwegian: “Malham”
- Persian: “ملهام”
- Polish: “Malham”
- Spanish: “Malham”
- Swedish: “Malham”
- Turkish: “Malham”
- Western Panjabi: “مالہمڈیل”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Malham”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.