Lake Eskdale

Lake Eskdale was proposed a proglacial lake of the Devensian glacial era, situated in what is now Eskdale, in North Yorkshire, England. The lake filled the valley of what is now the River Esk, and was one of several lakes in the North York Moors. When it overflowed some 70,000 years ago, the water channelled southwards through what is now Newton Dale towards another larger body of water, Lake Pickering. Percy Fry Kendall suggested the presence of the lakes in the North York Moors in 1902, but further studies in the latter half of the twentieth century have proposed other possibilities for why the water carved Newton Dale.