Vale of Pickering

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The Vale of Pickering is a valley in North Yorkshire , England. It lies in an east-west direction between the North York Moors and the Yorkshire Wolds . The valley borders the North Sea in the east , it occupies the area of ​​the former glacial lake Lake Pickering , in the west the Howardian Hills border the valley.

Lake Pickerung was a glacial lake whose outflow to the North Sea was blocked by the ice masses of the Vistula Ice Age . Ultimately, it drained to the southwest, where Kirkham Gorge is today . As Lake Pickering slowly dried out, a diverse landscape of sediments, river marshes, ditches and rivers as well as swamps and moors developed in the Vale. Since the first historically documented land reclamation efforts by Rievaulx Abbey in the 12th century, the land has been drained. Nowadays, the land is extensively drained, ditches criss-cross the landscape, and the former marshland and moorland are mainly the place names.

Today the River Rye and River Derwent flow through the valley into the Ouse and have caused numerous floods throughout history. The Rye flows into the Derwent in the Vale. Due to the Ice Age conditions, the Derwent in the valley essentially flows away from the North Sea until it leaves it to the south to flow into the Ouse . The settlements and traffic routes are concentrated on the valley edges in higher areas. On the north side of the valley, the A170 from Helmsley to Scarborough followed the settlement boundary today . Fresh water was always available on the slopes of the limestone mountains in the north.

This soft water comes mainly from the North York Moors. While fields and hedges dominate the landscape in the western interior, a typical marsh landscape predominates in the eastern part : dykes, drainage ditches and reed belts determine the landscape.

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Remarks

  1. ^ David Waugh: Geography: an integrated approach Nelson Thornes, 2000 ISBN 017444706X p. 123
  2. ^ Hadrian F. Cook, Tom Williamson: Water management in the English landscape: field, marsh and meadow Edinburgh University Press, 1999 ISBN 1853312061 p. 135

Coordinates: 54 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 0 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.