Burtersett
Burtersett is a small village in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. It lies approximately 1 mile east from Hawes and Gayle. The village is known for its former quarrying industry and being the seat of the Hillary family, with one strand of the family emigrating to New Zealand and raising Sir Edmund Hillary, the famous mountaineer.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Burtersett, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dales Countryside Museum and Gayle Mill.
Dales Countryside Museum
Museum
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Dales Countryside Museum is a local museum for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Northern England. Run by the National Park Authority, it tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in the Yorkshire Dales for over a 1,000 years.
Gayle Mill
Photo: Lobsan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gayle Mill, dating from about 1784, is thought to be the oldest structurally unaltered cotton mill in existence. It is located in the Wensleydale hamlet of Gayle, England, 1 mile south of the market town of Hawes.
St Margaret’s Church
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Margaret's Church is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Hawes, North Yorkshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sedbusk and Gayle.
Sedbusk
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sedbusk is a hamlet near Hawes and Hardraw Force within the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. The hamlet is 1 mile north of the town of Hawes across the River Ure.
Gayle
Village
Photo: Wehha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gayle is a hamlet 0.4-mile south of Hawes in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England. It is noted for the beck that flows through it and the old mill, which featured on the BBC TV programme Restoration.
Hardraw
Hamlet
Photo: Wehha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hardraw is a hamlet near Hawes within the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. The nearby Hardraw Force waterfall takes its name from it. The name of the hamlet is first recorded in 1606 as Hardrawe, and derives from Old English Herde and raw, which means the shepherd's houses. Hardraw is situated 2 miles northwest of Burtersett.
Burtersett
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Hawes, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.29956° or 54° 17′ 58″ northLongitude
-2.16892° or 2° 10′ 8″ westElevation
968 feet (295 metres)Open location code
9C6V7RXJ+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 243355282OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Burtersett” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Burtersett”
- French: “Burtersett”
- Irish: “Burtersett”
- Polish: “Burtersett”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Burtersett”. Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.