Dale
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In physical geography, a dale is an open valley. The name is particularly used in the North of England where the term Fell is also commonplace for the mountains or hills that flank the dale. Dale is the native English word which in other parts is sometimes replaced by valley, a word which dates only from the Norman Conquest. Compare fell.

See also:

• The Yorkshire Dales
• James Herriot
• Dale (Middle-earth)
• The Dales: a BBC radio soap opera originally called Mrs Dale's Diary
• Some of Andre Norton's Witch World novels take place in the fictional Dale-lands of High Hallack

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