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.

Contents 1 Places 1.1 Georgia 1.2 Norway 1.3 Pakistan 1.4 Portugal 1.5 Romania 1.6 United Kingdom 1.7 United States of America 2 People 3 Other uses 4 See also

Places

• Vale of Kashmir, a disputed territory, claimed by both Pakistan and India

Georgia

• Vale, Georgia, a town in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region

Norway

• Våle, a historic municipality

Pakistan

• Vale of Peshawar

Portugal

• A civil parish in the municipality of Alfândega de Fé

Romania

• Vale, a village in Aluniş Commune, Cluj County
• Vale, a village in Topliţa city, Harghita County
• Vale (Hungarian: Vále), a village in Sălişte town, Sibiu County

United Kingdom

• Vale, Guernsey, parish in Guernsey
• 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)
• Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England
• Castle Vale, Birmingham, England
• Maida Vale, London, England
• Trent Vale, Staffordshire, England
• Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
• Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire, England
• Vale of Leven, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
• Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England
• Vale of York, Yorkshire, England
• Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, England
• The Vale, Birmingham, England
• Vale of Mowbury, Yorkshire, England

United States of America

• Ballardvale, Massachusetts
• Brook Vale, Virginia
• Cedar Vale, Kansas
• Cherryvale, Kansas
• Intervale, New Hampshire
• Kenton Vale, Kentucky
• La Vale, Maryland
• Marysvale, Utah
• Meadow Vale, Kentucky
• Millvale, Pennsylvania
• Montvale, New Jersey
• Northvale, New Jersey
• Orangevale, California
• Pleasant Vale Township, Illinois
• River Vale, New Jersey
• Rivervale, Indiana
• Sunnyvale, California
• Swissvale, Pennsylvania
• Union Vale, New York
• Vale, North Carolina (Avery County)
• Vale, North Carolina (Lincoln County)
• Vale, Oregon
• Vale, South Dakota
• Vale, West Virginia
• Vale Summit, Maryland
• Vale Township, Butte County, South Dakota
• Vale Tunnel, Raytown, Missouri

People

• Angélica Vale, Mexican actress, singer and comedienne
• Bruno Vale, Portuguese footballer
• Danna Sue Vale, Australian politician
• Jack Vale, American comedian
• Jerry Vale, American singer
• John Vale, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• Vale Pepelo, a character in a New Zealand television animated series bro'Town

Other uses

• Rose Vale, a tone of the color Rose
• Vale gas field, North Sea gas field
• Vale Special, British sports car
• Taff Vale Railway, Welsh railway
• HNoMS Vale, warships of the Royal Norwegian Navy
• Vale languages, or "Ruto-Vale", an African language
• McLaren Vale, wine region in South Australia
• Vale (mining company), Brazilian mining company
• Vicki Vale, comic book character
• Port Vale F.C., an English football team
• Vale, a Latin word meaning farewell or goodbye to a recently deceased person
• Vale of Siddim (biblical)
• Vale Limited, a mining company in Ontario, Canada.
• Vale, The Home Town for the protagonists in the Nintendo Game Series Golden Sun

See also

• Valley
• Landform
• Vail, Colorado

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