Gordale Scar

Snow at Gordale Scar, Malham in the Yorkshire Dales.
The towering limestone cliffs are a result of violent earth movements along the Craven Fault. The gorge was formed by a torrent of water from the melting ice at the end of the last Ice Age.
William Wordsworth visited Gordale in 1807 and wrote in a sonnet,
" let thy feet repair
To Gordale-chasm,
terrific as the lair .
Where the young lions couch;