Gordale Scar

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Gordale Scar is situated within the protected area: Malham-Arncliffe SSSI.

Notable visitors

William Wordsworth wrote in the sonnet Gordale, "let thy feet repair to Gordale chasm, terrific as the lair where the young lions couch".<ref name=Wordsworth/>

James Ward created a large and imaginative painting<ref name=Ward /> of it that can be seen in Tate Britain. J. M. W. Turner also painted a picture of it in 1816, also to be seen in Tate Britain.<ref name=Tate/>

Colin Tudge references this feature and James Ward's painting in his book The Time Before History.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The waterfall was used as an exterior filming location in the 1982 film The Dark Crystal. Goredale Scar appears in the Netflix series The Witcher (S2 E3: "What is Lost").