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 ...
in
North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the United Kingdom, national parks, including most of ...
, England. The northern part of the dale is the valley of the
River Bain
The River Bain is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Witham.
The Bain rises in the Lincolnshire Wolds at Ludford,J. N. Clarke, (1990), ''The Horncastle and Tattershall Canal'', Oakwood Press, a village on The Vik ...
, which flows out of Semerwater, one of very few lakes in the Yorkshire Dales. Above the lake the dale is drained by smaller Beck (stream), becks, and is joined by two smaller dales, Cragdale on the east and Bardale on the west.
There are three hamlets in the dale, Countersett, Marsett and Stalling Busk. The village of Bainbridge, North Yorkshire, Bainbridge lies at the mouth of the dale.
The dale is a broad, flat-bottomed U-shaped valley, with a significant woodland cover around Semerwater and the other water courses.
Yorkshire Dales National Park: Landscape character: Raydale
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Wensleydale
Yorkshire Dales
