Hawes

Hawes is a village in , with Gayle its southwest extension; in 2021 their population was 800. It's in Wensleydale, one of the , and is best known for making Wensleydale cheese.
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  • Type: Town with 887 residents
  • Description: town in North Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: “Hawes, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dales Countryside Museum and Hardraw Force.

Museum
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a local which also functions as a visitor centre for the 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.

Waterfall
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is a waterfall on Hardraw Beck in Hardraw Scar, a wooded ravine just outside the hamlet of , 0.9 miles north of the town of Hawes, , in the .

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, dating from about 1784, is thought to be the oldest structurally unaltered cotton mill in existence. It is located in the hamlet of , , 1 mile south of the market town of Hawes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gayle and Burtersett.

Village
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is a hamlet 0.4-mile south of Hawes in , , England. It is noted for the beck that flows through it and the old mill, which featured on the BBC TV programme Restoration.

Hamlet
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is a small village in the , , England. It lies approximately 1 mile east from Hawes and . The village is known for its former quarrying industry and being the seat of the Hillary family.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet near Hawes and within the in , England. The Village is 1 mile north of the town of Hawes across the .

Hawes

Latitude
54.3041° or 54° 18′ 15″ north
Longitude
-2.1965° or 2° 11′ 48″ west
Population
887
Elevation
774 feet (236 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HWE
Open location code
9C6V8R33+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 23202285
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647301
Wiki­data ID
Q2225538
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Hawes” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Hawes”
  • Basque: “Hawes”
  • Cebuano: “Hawes”
  • Chinese: “荷斯”
  • Chinese: “霍斯”
  • Dutch: “Hawes”
  • Finnish: “Hawes”
  • French: “Hawes”
  • Irish: “Hawes”
  • Italian: “Hawes”
  • Japanese: “ハーズ”
  • Ladin: “Hawes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hawes”
  • Norwegian: “Hawes”
  • Persian: “هاوز”
  • Polish: “Hawes”
  • Spanish: “Hawes”
  • Swedish: “Hawes”
  • Turkish: “Hawes”
  • Urdu: “ہاوز”
  • Volapük: “Hawes”
  • Welsh: “Hawes”
  • “Hawes”

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