Wath-in-Nidderdale

Wath, sometimes known as Wath-in-Nidderdale to distinguish it from other places named Wath, is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is near Gouthwaite Reservoir and about 3 miles north of Pateley Bridge.

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Type: Village
Description: village in High and Low Bishopside, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Wath” and “Wath-in-Nidderdale, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nidderdale Museum and Pateley Playhouse.

Nidderdale Museum

Museum

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Nidderdale Museum is a local and social history museum in the market town of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, one of the Yorkshire Dales, in North Yorkshire, England.

Pateley Playhouse

Theater building

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The Pateley Playhouse is a small amateur-run theatre in the town of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England. The building was initially a Primitive Methodist Chapel but was abandoned in the late 1930s.

Gouthwaite Reservoir

Reservoir

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Gouthwaite Reservoir is in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England. It is one of many reservoirs in the area, others include Roundhill Reservoir and Angram Reservoir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heathfield and Pateley Bridge.

Heathfield

Hamlet

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Heathfield is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stonebeck Down in upper Nidderdale, in North Yorkshire, England. It lies on a broad terrace on the west side of the dale, overlooking a steep slope down to the River Nidd.

Pateley Bridge

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Pateley Bridge is a town in North Yorkshire. Here the River Nidd emerges from the karstic valleys of the Yorkshire Dales into the broad plain of the Vale of York, so the town is a good base for exploring both areas. In 2024 the population was 1300.

Glasshouses

Village

Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glasshouses is a small village in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England. It lies 1 mile south-east of Pateley Bridge on the east side of Nidderdale and has a recently rebuilt river bridge across the River Nidd. In 2019 it had an estimated population of 536. Glasshouses is situated 2½ miles southeast of Wath-in-Nidderdale.

Wath-in-Nidderdale

Category: locality
Location: High and Low Bishopside, Harrogate District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.10568° or 54° 6′ 21″ north

Longitude

-1.7751° or 1° 46′ 30″ west

Elevation

794 feet (242 metres)

Open location code

9C6W464F+7X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 59735664

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2634674

Wikidata ID

Q692483

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Polish—“Wath-in-Nidderdale” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Wath-in-Nidderdale”
French: “Wath-in-Nidderdale”
Polish: “Wath-in-Nidderdale”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Meal Ark and Ladies‘ Riggs.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Birkenhaw Wood and Peggy Wood.

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