Gordale Beck
Gordale Beck is a minor stream in the West Riding of Yorkshire, within the Yorkshire Dales, but which is fame as the stream running through Gordale Scar, a spectacular limestone ravine a mile north-east of Malham.
The beck rises on the craggy landscape of Craven and runs due south for nearly two miles befpre pouring into the head of Gordale Scar, just by the site of an old Roman camp.
Within the Scar, the beck tumbles down two waterfalls and over countless rocks. It waters are almost lost in the deep ravine, but it its midst they spurt through a wall of rock to continue their course southward and downward.
A right of way leads up the gorge, but requires climbing approximately 10 feet of tufa at the lower waterfall
The Beck on leaving the gorge flows over a fine waterfall known as Janet's Foss before joining Malham Beck two miles downstream to form the River Aire at Aire Head, where the Pennine Way crosses the streams.