Fridaythorpe Earthworks

This is Holm Dale, south of Fridaythorpe. Down at the end there is Harper Dale to the left and Horse Dale to the right. These dry valleys of the Yorkshire Wolds were created at the end of the last Ice Age, c.18,000 years ago, when the action of fast-running streams flowing over frozen ground carved out these valleys. The chalk geology here allows water to drain so efficiently that the valleys run dry.