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Aysgarth
Aysgarth is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale, in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. The village is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, about south-west of Richmond and west of the county town of Northallerton. History A Bronze Age burial has been found in the village. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as ''Echescard''. The toponymy is derived from the combination of the Old Norse words ''eiki'', meaning oak, and ''skarð'', which may mean open space, cleft or mountain pass, so the probable meaning is ''Oak tree cleft'', referring to the valley cut by the River Ure. At the time of the Norman invasion, the manor was held by Cnut, son of Karli. Afterwards the manor was in the possession of Count Alan of Brittany, who granted lordship to Geoffrey of Swaffham. By the 13th century, the manor was in the hands of the ''Burgh'' family of Hackforth. The manor descended with the manor of Hackforth until 1480, at which time they were conveye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aysgarth Falls (Upper)
Aysgarth Falls are a triple flight of waterfalls, surrounded by woodland and farmland, carved out by the River Ure over an almost stretch on its descent to mid-Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales of England, near the village of Aysgarth. The falls are quite spectacular after heavy rainfall as thousands of gallons of water cascade over the series of broad limestone steps, which are divided into three stages: Upper Force, Middle Force and Lower Force. The falls are an SSSI. Aysgarth Falls have attracted visitors for more than 200 years, including John Ruskin, J. M. W. Turner and William Wordsworth visited, all enthusing about the falls' outstanding beauty. All three falls were featured in the film '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves''. The Falls are situated in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There is a visitors' centre with an exhibition, information, items for sale, a café, toilets and a pay-and-display car park. There are public footpaths through the wooded valley, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aysgarth Falls
Aysgarth Falls are a triple flight of waterfalls, surrounded by woodland and farmland, carved out by the River Ure over an almost stretch on its descent to mid-Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales of England, near the village of Aysgarth. The falls are quite spectacular after heavy rainfall as thousands of gallons of water cascade over the series of broad limestone steps, which are divided into three stages: Upper Force, Middle Force and Lower Force. The falls are an SSSI. Aysgarth Falls have attracted visitors for more than 200 years, including John Ruskin, J. M. W. Turner and William Wordsworth visited, all enthusing about the falls' outstanding beauty. All three falls were featured in the film '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves''. The Falls are situated in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There is a visitors' centre with an exhibition, information, items for sale, a café, toilets and a pay-and-display car park. There are public footpaths through the wooded valley, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aysgarth Railway Station
Aysgarth railway station is a disused railway station in North Yorkshire, England, near Aysgarth Falls. It was part of the Hawes Branch of the North Eastern Railway from its opening in 1877 until closure in April 1954. The Wensleydale Railway Association aims to rebuild the railway from Northallerton (from its current western terminus at Redmire) to Garsdale and plans to re-open the station. History The station was opened by the North Eastern Railway on 1 February 1877. The line became part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) during the Grouping of 1923. The station was host to a camping coach from 1935 to 1939 and could possibly have had a coach in 1933 and/or 1934. The station was also one of those used by the LNER touring camping coach service in 1935. The line passed to the North Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was closed by the British Transport Commission in April 1954, although goods traffic continued until the Redmire t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thornton Rust
Thornton Rust is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Yorkshire Dales about west of Aysgarth, high on the south bank of the River Ure in Wensleydale. History The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 by the name ''Toreton''. At the time of the Norman invasion the manor belonged to ''Thor'', but afterwards was granted to ''Count Alan of Brittany''. A mesne lordship was held here by ''Sybil of Thornton'' in 1286, but the head tenant of the manor was Robert de Tateshall, who was also lord of Thorlaby manor. The descent of Thornton Rust manor followed that of Thoralby into the 19th century. The toponymy of the village name is derived from the combination of the Old English words of ''þorn'' and ''tūn'', which gave the meaning of ''Thorn tree farm'', and partly it is said from Bishop Restitutus, to whom the medieval chapel was claimed to have been dedicated, though evidence is lacking. The chapel no lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Ure
The River Ure in North Yorkshire, England is approximately long from its source to the point where it becomes the River Ouse. It is the principal river of Wensleydale, which is the only major dale now named after a village rather than its river. The old name for the valley was Yoredale after the river that runs through it. The Ure is one of many rivers and waterways that drain the Dales into the River Ouse. Tributaries of the Ure include the River Swale and the River Skell. Name The earliest recorded name of the river is in about 1025, probably an error for , where represents the Old English letter wynn or 'w', standing for ("water"). By 1140 it is recorded as ''Jor'', hence Jervaulx (Jorvale) Abbey, and a little later as ''Yore''. In Tudor times the antiquarians John Leland and William Camden used the modern form of the name. The name probably means "the strong or swift river". This is on the assumption that the Brittonic name of the river was ''Isurā'', becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishopdale, North Yorkshire
Bishopdale is a dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. The dale is a side dale on the south side of Wensleydale, and extends for some south west from Aysgarth. Bishopdale is also the name of a civil parish, which includes only the sparsely populated upper reaches of the dale, from the head of the dale as far downstream as Howesyke and Howgill Gill. Geography There are three villages in the dale, all in its lower part: West Burton, Thoralby and Newbiggin. The Bishopdale Beck flows through the dale to join the River Ure about east of Aysgarth. The B6160 road follows the path of the river from its junction with the A684 to the watershed at Kidstones Pass where it continues to Cray and Buckden in Upper Wharfedale. The highest point in the dale is to be found at about two thirds of the way up Buckden Pike. The dale is divided between four civil parishes, Bishopdale, Newbiggin, Thoralby and the northern part of Burton-cum-Walden (which in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoralby
Thoralby is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies south of Aysgarth, is within a mile of both Newbiggin and West Burton and is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is south-west of the county town of Northallerton. History The village is mentioned in ''Domesday Book'' as ''Turoldesbi''. After the Norman invasion the lands were awarded to ''Count Alan of Brittany'', who granted the local manor to ''Bernwulf'', who had held the manor before that. The manor was eventually acquired by the lords of Middleham, whose descent it then followed until the Middleham manor holdings were sold piecemeal by commissioners of the Crown in the mid-17th century. The manor of Thoralby was purchased by the ''Norton'' family. By the middle of the 18th century it had passed to the ''Purchas'' family. On Thoralby Common the remains of lead mines and quarries are still visible, indicating the industrial past of the area. There has also been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newbiggin, South Wensleydale
Newbiggin is a village and civil parish in Bishopdale, a side dale on the south side of Wensleydale, in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. The population was estimated at 80 in 2012. In the 2011 census the parish was included with the parish of Bishopdale. The name Newbiggin derived from the words 'niwe', which is Old English for 'new' and 'bigging', a word from Middle English, said to mean 'building'. This translates to New Building in today's language. History Newbiggin once belonged to Jervaulx Abbey. Newbiggin is home to a number of 18th-century houses, one of the more notable ones is in the north end of the parish. This house in particular has a doorway which is said to have: "a cambered lintel with a quatrefoil in each angle and moulded jambs". Above this door there is an inscription dated 1636. This dates the house back almost 400 years now, and some of its key features such as its original three light mullioned window still remains to this day. Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Burton, North Yorkshire
West Burton is a village in Bishopdale, a side valley of Wensleydale, in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. It lies south-west of Leyburn and west of the county town of Northallerton. It is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Burton-cum-Walden. History There is some evidence of an Iron Age settlement on top of nearby Burton Moor that has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It consists of about eighteen hut circles and defined fields. The village is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' as just ''Burton''. The toponymy of the village is derived from the Old English meaning a ''fortified farm''. Until the 17th century the village was known as Burton in Bishopdale. "West" distinguishes the village from the village of Constable Burton, to the east, also known simply as Burton in the early Middle Ages, and in the 19th century as ''Burton-in-Bishopdale''. At the time of the Norman invasion the village was part of the manor belonging to ''Thor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wensleydale
Wensleydale is the dale or upper valley of the River Ure on the east side of the Pennines, one of the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of only a few Yorkshire Dales not currently named after its principal river, but the older name, Yoredale, can still be seen on some maps and as the Yoredale Series of geological strata. The dale takes its name from the village of Wensley, once its market town. The valley is famous for its cheese, with the main commercial production at Hawes. Also famous are its ales from Theakston Brewery and Black Sheep Brewery in Masham. Most of the dale is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Part of lower Wensleydale, below East Witton, is within the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Addlebrough, a fell, dominates the landscape of the upper dale, and Penhill at is prominent in the lower dale. History Wensleydale was the home of one of Yorkshire's most famous clans, the Metcalfes, after they emigrated from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carperby
Carperby is a village in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, in the Yorkshire Dales. It lies west of Leyburn. Etymology The derivation of the villages name is uncertain, but Ekwall believes it be mean Cairpe's settlement in Old Norse (''Cairpes bȳ''). The name ''Cairpe'' is of Old Irish origin, implying Norse-Gaelic settlement in the area. History In the centre of the village is a high-stepped cross, dated 1674, that tells of the time when Carperby had a market (granted in 1305). In the 17th century the village was an important Wensleydale centre of Quakerism, and its biggest building even today is the classically styled Friends' Meeting House of 1864. In 1810, the western end of the village supposedly suffered from a fire which destroyed 12 thatched cottages. Whilst there is no documentary evidence of this, it is a locally believed legend and mapping from 1819 and 1856 does show at least nine dwellings as having been removed. The Richmond to Lancaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in the Historic counties of England, historic county of Yorkshire, England, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954. The Dales comprise river valleys and the hills rising from the Vale of York westwards to the hilltops of the Pennine Drainage divide, watershed. In Ribblesdale, Dentdale and Garsdale, the area extends westwards across the watershed, but most of the valleys drain eastwards to the Vale of York, into the River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and the Humber. The extensive limestone cave systems are a major area for caving in the UK and numerous walking trails run through the hills and dales. Etymology The word ''Dale (landform), dale'', like ''dell'', is derived from the Old English word ''dæl''. It has cognates in the North Germanic languages, Nordic/Germanic languages, Germanic words for valley (''dal'', ''tal''), and occurs in valley names across Yorkshire and Northern England. Usage here may have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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