Malham Cove: Stunning picture shows incredible views from top of Yorkshire beauty spot
Malham Cove’s 80m-high Great Scar Limestone rock face was formed more than 330 million years ago, a time when the area was about 10 degrees south of the equator and the North inundated by tropical seas.
Views offered from the top of the massive curving amphitheatre shaped cliff include that of Malham Beck and Malham village.
Counted among the top 10 geological wonders of Britain, the leading tourist attraction has been described as a “most bizarre landscape”, with limestone blocks called clints and fissures called grykes drawing comparisons to the surface of the moon.
The grykes’ microclimate is humid and slightly warmer than the pavement, resulting in them teeming with flora such as dog’s mercury, anenomes, ferns and wood sorrel.