Earth and Environment Atlas

How The Planet Works
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Geological Formations

Airedale

Erosional and Karst Formations

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

Airedale is a valley in North and West Yorkshire, England, carved by and named for the River Aire. Its upper reach, from Malham Cove to Airton, is known separately as Malhamdale; at Airton the valley widens and becomes Airedale proper, running past Skipton, Keighley, Bingley, Saltaire and Shipley on its way to Leeds. Together with the neighboring Ribblesdale, Airedale forms the Aire Gap, a low-altitude passage through the Pennines that has long carried transport routes between Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Sources
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.