Settle Circular via Malham walk
From a pretty market town through impressive limestone scenery to the natural wonders of Malham: cove, waterfall, dramatic gorge, dry valleys, a stream out of caves, a very large tarn
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![Malham Cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897767536_2c41544107.jpg)
![Gordale Scar, from the scrambling avoidance route SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896854412_b8e1103774.jpg)
Gordale Scar, from the scrambling avoidance route
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![Limestone Crag on left SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896853687_a38963b47a.jpg)
Limestone Crag on left
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![Watlowes dry valley (Ing Scar and Comb Scar) SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015273_50e4378f25.jpg)
Watlowes dry valley (Ing Scar and Comb Scar)
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![Wild garlic in Little Gordale Wood SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898196980_c19681e717.jpg)
Wild garlic in Little Gordale Wood
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![Wild garlic in Little Gordale Wood, Gordale Beck on right SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897769391_900457a7ee.jpg)
Wild garlic in Little Gordale Wood, Gordale Beck on right
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![Janet's Foss on the Gordale Beck SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897769371_8f13e7d131.jpg)
Janet's Foss on the Gordale Beck
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![Gordale Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896854632_6a460b11a6_z.jpg)
Gordale Scar
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![Gordale Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898115039_e3856f0e1d.jpg)
Gordale Scar
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![Gordale Scar with upper and lower waterfall SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898017623_4a27e992ca_z.jpg)
Gordale Scar with upper and lower waterfall
SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]
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![Gordale Scar, from the scrambling avoidance route SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898196690_47c2aae28e_z.jpg)
Gordale Scar, from the scrambling avoidance route
SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]
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![Gordale Scar: upper waterfall SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897769101_1bac50cd7c_z.jpg)
Gordale Scar: upper waterfall
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![Gordale Scar: upper waterfall SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898017438_6c5e9526ae_z.jpg)
Gordale Scar: upper waterfall
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![Gordale Scar: en route to the lower waterfall SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898196535_7ffef5314c.jpg)
Gordale Scar: en route to the lower waterfall
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![Gordale Beck above the waterfalls (upstream) SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898114554_fe7aef6ac5.jpg)
Gordale Beck above the waterfalls (upstream)
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![Gordale Beck above the waterfalls (downstream) SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898196470_f6010813fc.jpg)
Gordale Beck above the waterfalls (downstream)
SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham [Gordale Scar Option]
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![View back to Settle from early ascent SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896853992_b08894dd76.jpg)
View back to Settle from early ascent
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![View up Ribblesdale from the early ascent: Langcliffe Mill and Stainforth Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898196225_2eff2b28dd.jpg)
View up Ribblesdale from the early ascent: Langcliffe Mill and Stainforth Scar
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![Warrendale Knotts SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896853862_66d8bfc1d7.jpg)
![Warrendale Knotts SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897768616_a15444ef05.jpg)
![View ahead along Attermire Scar to Rye Loaf Hill SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898016833_e5509d4396.jpg)
View ahead along Attermire Scar to Rye Loaf Hill
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![Limestone Crags on left SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898195915_e3986c39c5.jpg)
![Attermire Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897768401_fd63b94e58.jpg)
![Remnants of 19th century Rifle Range SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898195780_03f700a17b.jpg)
Remnants of 19th century Rifle Range
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![Detail of 19th century Rifle Range: made by a firm based in Bishopsgate, London SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898016483_c04f77a2f6.jpg)
Detail of 19th century Rifle Range: made by a firm based in Bishopsgate, London
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![Backview along Attermire Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898195655_1b6f42df57.jpg)
Backview along Attermire Scar
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![Backview along Attermire Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898113854_843ebd471e.jpg)
Backview along Attermire Scar
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![Stockdale Farm and Rye Loaf Hill SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898016293_bdbbf4afe2.jpg)
Stockdale Farm and Rye Loaf Hill
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![View back down Stockdale past its namesake farm SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896853207_348594e221.jpg)
View back down Stockdale past its namesake farm
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![View back down Stockdale past its namesake farm SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898195475_abfc88a770.jpg)
View back down Stockdale past its namesake farm
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![Rising out of Stockdale... SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898113659_72a31c9d70.jpg)
![Malham Tarm from high pass into Malhamdale SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897767821_ce38eb40ca.jpg)
Malham Tarm from high pass into Malhamdale
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![Nappa Cross (monastic waymarker linked to Fountains Abbey, integrated into drystone wall) SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898113454_5079f1a81e_z.jpg)
Nappa Cross (monastic waymarker linked to Fountains Abbey, integrated into drystone wall)
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![Malham Tarn SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898195285_0f1a266b5e.jpg)
![Malhamdale and Malham village SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898113424_937b4cca21.jpg)
Malhamdale and Malham village
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![Cave entrance to side of descent path SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898113314_18252ff2e7.jpg)
Cave entrance to side of descent path
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![Pastures leading down to Malham SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015848_2e337ed94e.jpg)
Pastures leading down to Malham
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![First partial sighting of Malham Cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015828_f9a9aa6a2a.jpg)
First partial sighting of Malham Cove
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![Malham Cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015723_bab7e9264d.jpg)
![Wall of Malham Cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896852687_fe590b3c26_z.jpg)
![Wall of Malham Cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898113109_30a5f0fe2c_z.jpg)
![Malham Beck emerging out of cave system at bottom of Malham Cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898194910_23db011284.jpg)
Malham Beck emerging out of cave system at bottom of Malham Cove
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![Malham Cove and Beck SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015473_52f9766bd6_z.jpg)
![View down the tourist path up the cove side SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897767251_7b24254360.jpg)
View down the tourist path up the cove side
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![Limestone Pavement at the top of Malham Cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897767246_1e190fc589_z.jpg)
Limestone Pavement at the top of Malham Cove
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![View down from lip of cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015438_1109004293_z.jpg)
![View down from lip of cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898194700_232d9e04ba.jpg)
![The Cove's curved lip SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015353_d0ace5a747.jpg)
![Limestone Pavement at the top of Malham Cove SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897767106_538e8fb557.jpg)
Limestone Pavement at the top of Malham Cove
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![Watlowes Dry Valley (usually dry anyway) SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898112854_4d193c6dc1.jpg)
Watlowes Dry Valley (usually dry anyway)
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![View back into Malhamdale from Pennine Bridleway SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015243_cdd7c3b30c.jpg)
View back into Malhamdale from Pennine Bridleway
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![Pen-y-ghent from return route SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898112679_c567727421.jpg)
Pen-y-ghent from return route
SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham
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![Pen-y-ghent and Plover Hill from return route SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896852222_67d11d0144.jpg)
Pen-y-ghent and Plover Hill from return route
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![Fountains Fell from return route SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898112529_6fc411f3db.jpg)
Fountains Fell from return route
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![Jubilee Cave entrance SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897766816_48d10ee383_z.jpg)
![Northerly end of Attermire Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898015028_299f4fbd52.jpg)
Northerly end of Attermire Scar
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![Northerly end of Attermire Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897766776_f1142f9cc5.jpg)
Northerly end of Attermire Scar
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![Northerly end of Attermire Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896851922_5359b35343.jpg)
Northerly end of Attermire Scar
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![Northerly end of Attermire Scar SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898014843_487ea2e537.jpg)
Northerly end of Attermire Scar
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![View from elevated path up Riddlesdale: Stainforth Scar and village SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898112344_dcd1bb2e92.jpg)
View from elevated path up Riddlesdale: Stainforth Scar and village
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![View from elevated path above Riddlesdale: Pen-y-ghent SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897766636_e683a24372.jpg)
View from elevated path above Riddlesdale: Pen-y-ghent
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![View from elevated path above Riddlesdale: Ingleborough SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53896851657_788b643683.jpg)
View from elevated path above Riddlesdale: Ingleborough
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![View from elevated path above Riddlesdale, up the dale SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898112129_867107f791.jpg)
View from elevated path above Riddlesdale, up the dale
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![View from elevated path above Riddlesdale: Stainforth Scar and Pen-y-ghent SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53897766506_f3526631b7.jpg)
View from elevated path above Riddlesdale: Stainforth Scar and Pen-y-ghent
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![Blua Crags SWC Walk 443 - Settle Circular via Malham](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53898014603_b84ee0c44e.jpg)