In physical geography a vale is a wide river valley, usually with a particularly wide flood plain or flat valley bottom. Vales commonly occur between the scarp slopes of pairs of chalk downs, where the chalk dome has been eroded, exposing less resistant underlying rock, usually clay.

List of vales

• Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England.
• Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England.

Places named Vale or containing Vale in their names include:

• Vale, North Carolina
• River Vale, New Jersey

(Also note Vail, Colorado, spelled differently.)

See also: List of landforms.