Vale of Mowbray

The Vale of Mowbray is a valley in North Yorkshire, England. It lies between the North York Moors on the English east and the Yorkshire Dales to the west coast. It is named after the noble family de Mowbray, which had its headquarters in Thirsk and the area ruled for several hundred years.

Geography

The Vale of Mowbray is in a continuous plane between Tees Valley in the North and the Vale of York to the south. From teas Vallery it separates one watershed. The glacial landscape dominated by sand and gravel back, pointing to the covered terminal moraines of sound is more varied than in the shallower Vale of York. The soil is fertile farmland, so that especially medium-sized control hedges separate fields of the landscape. The Swale and its tributaries Wiske and Cod Beck taking place in meanders through the land, the villages are often slightly elevated road lying villages, the houses consist predominantly of bare brick.

Largest cities are Northallerton and Thirsk.

Traffic

As a flat land between two mountain ranges, the Vale offers a route of important north -south connections. The highways A1 and A19 run through the valley, as well as the East Coast Main Line railway.

Tourism

Tourist is the valley as a base point for visitors to the Moors and Dales of importance. Thirsk itself enjoys some notoriety as the one place where James Herriot pursued his veterinary practice.

The Coast to Coast Walk, a long distance footpath leads across the valley. However, this section applies in comparison to the spectacular Moors and Dales of the route as monotonous and not very varied, especially as it is a very long day's stage with nearly 40 km long and runs to a large extent on driveways.