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Wensleydale near Hawes. Wensleydale is a valley in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the Yorkshire Dales, which are part of the Pennines. The dale is named after the village of Wensley, formerly the valley's market town. The principal river of the valley is the Ure, which is the source of the alternative name Yoredale. [1]
Woodhall is a small hamlet in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England. [1] It is about 2 miles (3 km) away from Askrigg and 3 miles (5 km) north west of Aysgarth. Woodhall consists of a garage (Aldersons), three farms and 22 family homes.
The fort occupies a strategic position on the summit of Brough Hill, between the confluence of the River Bain and River Ure.It has views across Wensleydale and may have been placed to control a pass through the Pennines between Stainmore and the Ilkley/Aire gap.
It encompasses 1 contributing building and 1 contributing structure. They are "Lanesville," a two-story side-gabled frame house on a solid stone-rubble foundation built about 1807, and a section of the former Vestal's Gap Road, an 18th-century road. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]
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Sedbusk is situated just off the "high road" in Wensleydale (the road on the opposite side of the valley to the A684). [5] The road that goes through the hamlet is part of an old drovers road that is said to have been the route that Mary Queen of Scots travelled along on her way to Castle Bolton. [6]
It is on the A684 road 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the market town of Leyburn. The River Ure passes through the village. The etymology of the name ultimately originates from a compound of an Old English form of the god Woden (attested Wednesleg c. 1212, earlier Wodnesleie, see Wednesday). Wensley gives its name to the dale Wensleydale.
Worton is a hamlet in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies 1-mile (1.6 km) east of Bainbridge on the A684 road, [1] 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Aysgarth and 1-mile (1.6 km) south east of Askrigg. [2] The hamlet is just south of the River Ure, the biggest river in Wensleydale.