The Great Outdoors

7 OF BRITAIN’S MOST WEIRD AND WONDERFUL PATHS

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1 GORDALE SCAR, NORTH YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND

12.1km/360m ascent/3.5 hours

A huge, echoing, overhanging face of silver limestone, the remnant of an ancient waterfall that was taller than Niagara Falls, Malham Cove is one of the most stark and impressive landscape features anywhere in Britain. But the neighbouring Gordale Scar, where water still booms through a sublime gorge, is no less awe-inspiring. A circular loop from Malham, with a nerve-jangling scramble of the tufa waterfall of Gordale Scar (it’s easier than it looks, as is often the case), over to

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