Malham Cove is a limestone formation 1 km north of the village of Malham, in the Yorkshire Dales in Northern England. The large, curved rock-face was formed by a 300 m wide and 80 m high waterfall that drained melting-water from glaciers at the end of the last ice age, more than 12.000 years ago. At the top of this rock-face an interesting limestone 'pavement' developed. When the glacier retreated, a flat, bare limestone bed remained upon the upper edge. Because limestone is slightly soluble in water, drainage along joints and cracks in the limestone produced an ever more distinct pattern. The stones are called ‘clints’ and the (sometimes deep) cracks ‘grykes’. When the grykes are fairly straight and the clints fairly uniform in size, the resemblance to man-made pavement is striking, and that is clearly the case here. This place was used in the film version of Emily Brontë's ‘Wuthering Heights’ from 1992 and in the seventh Harry Potter film (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - part 1), as one of the spots that Hermione and Harry travel by.