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HALTON Ramblers travelled to Malham in Yorkshire on Sunday, October 14.

Groups of walkers from the Halton area travelled to North Yorkshire to walk four planned walks.

Their base was one of the most spectacular villages in the Yorkshire Dales, Malham.

Malham, mentioned in the Domesday Book as ‘Malgun’ has been a settlement for at least a thousand years, one hundred years ago Malham was a place of mills and mines but nowadays hill farming and tourism are the main activities.

The area is famous for its impressive limestone scenery, Malham Cove and Gordale Scar.

Film makers have chosen this area to shoot many films most recently Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (Part 1) while tourists come to walk the accessible paths to the impressive limestone features, waterfalls and the stunning scenery with the limestone walls and lush green fields and the contrasting fells.

The first group to start their walk was the 13 mile hard B walk led by John Cormack.

They left the coaches at Airton, heading westward to Orms Gill Green, descending to Crake Moor Covert, climbing then to High Green and the highest point of the day Rye Loaf Hill.

The group then made their way to Malham Tarn.

The tarn is a glacial lake and is only one of eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe at 1,237ft above sea level, now owned by the National Trust.

Joining the Pennine Way they descended down through Malham Cove back to Malham.

The 14 mile A walk led by Denis Hignett headed out of Malham towards Malham Cove which is described as a huge curving amphitheatre.

The vertical rock face is about 260ft high and was formed along the line of