Raydale (also known as Raydaleside) is a dale on the south side of

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 th ...

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, England. The northern part of the dale is the valley of the

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, which flows out of

Semerwater Semerwater is the second largest natural lake in North Yorkshire, England, after Malham Tarn. It is half a mile (800 m) long, covers and lies in Raydale, opposite the River Bain. A private pay and display parking area is at the foot of the lake ...

, one of very few lakes in the

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 ri ...

. Above the lake the dale is drained by smaller

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s, and is joined by two smaller dales, Cragdale on the east and Bardale on the west. There are three hamlets in the dale,

Countersett Countersett is the largest of the three settlements in Raydale, around Semerwater in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Yorkshire Dales to the north of the lake. The Boar East and West were once one farm, and be ...

Marsett Marsett is one of three settlements in around Semer Water in Raydale, a small side dale off Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England. Marsett is only a hamlet and lies to the south-west of the lake, at a point where a smaller side dale, Bardale, ...

and

Stalling Busk Stalling Busk is one of three settlements around Semer Water in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire in the small dale of Raydale just off from Wensleydale, England. The hamlet lies to the immediate south of the lake. As well as th ...

. The village of Bainbridge lies at the mouth of the dale. The dale is a broad, flat-bottomed

U-shaped valley U-shaped valleys, also called trough valleys or glacial troughs, are formed by the process of glaciation. They are characteristic of mountain glaciation in particular. They have a characteristic U shape in cross-section, with steep, straight s ...

, with a significant woodland cover around Semerwater and the other water courses.Yorkshire Dales National Park: Landscape character: Raydale
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