Rookwith
Rookwith is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, about 4 miles west of Bedale and near the flow of the River Ure. The hamlet was mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Count Alan and having four ploughlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 27 residents
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Rookwith, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jervaulx Abbey and Aysgarth School.
Jervaulx Abbey
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Jervaulx Abbey in East Witton in North Yorkshire, 14 mi north-west of the city of Ripon, was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, England, dedicated to St Mary in 1156. Jervaulx Abbey is situated 2 miles west of Rookwith.
Aysgarth School
School
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Aysgarth School is an independent day and boarding preparatory school near to the village of Newton-le-Willows, North Yorkshire, England. As the name suggests, it was originally opened in the village of Aysgarth but was moved to Newton-le-Willows in 1890. Aysgarth School is situated 1½ miles north of Rookwith.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Low Ellington and Thornton Steward.
Low Ellington
Hamlet
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Low Ellington is a small village in lower Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England about 2 miles north-west of Masham. It is 0.5 miles east of the much larger village of High Ellington. Low Ellington is situated 1½ miles south of Rookwith.
Thornton Steward
Village
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thornton Steward is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, near Wensleydale, with a population of 100–200, measured at 199 in the 2011 Census. Thornton Steward is situated 2 miles west of Rookwith.
Thornton Watlass
Village
Photo: Andrew McLean, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thornton Watlass is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is located north of Masham and south of Bedale on the eastern slopes of the Ure Valley at the entrance to Wensleydale and the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Thornton Watlass is situated 2 miles east of Rookwith.
Rookwith
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Rookwith, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.2736° or 54° 16′ 25″ northLongitude
-1.6868° or 1° 41′ 13″ westPopulation
27Elevation
276 feet (84 metres)Open location code
9C6W78F7+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 33809929OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
12572730Wikidata ID
Q2788281
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Rookwith” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rookwith”
- Dutch: “Rookwith”
- French: “Rookwith”
- Irish: “Rookwith”
- Ladin: “Rookwith”
- Polish: “Rookwith”
- Swedish: “Rookwith”
- Turkish: “Rookwith”
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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 “Rookwith”. Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.