Hawes
Hawes is a village in North Yorkshire, with Gayle its southwest extension; in 2021 their population was 800. It's in Wensleydale, one of the Yorkshire Dales, and is best known for making Wensleydale cheese.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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 Hardraw Force and Dales Countryside Museum.
Hardraw Force
Waterfall
Photo: Wehha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hardraw Force is a waterfall on Hardraw Beck in Hardraw Scar, a wooded ravine just outside the hamlet of Hardraw, 0.9 miles north of the town of Hawes, Wensleydale, in the Yorkshire Dales.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gayle and Appersett.
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.
Appersett
Village
Photo: Cacolantern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Appersett is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales in the county of North Yorkshire, England one mile west of Hawes. It lies on the A684 road and an unclassified road runs alongside Widdale Beck to connect with the B6255 road between Hawes and Ingleton.
Hardraw
Hamlet
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Hardraw is a hamlet near Hawes within the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It takes its name from the nearby Hardraw Force waterfall. 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.
Hawes
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.3041° or 54° 18′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.1965° or 2° 11′ 48″ westPopulation
887Elevation
774 feet (236 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HWEOpen location code
9C6V8R33+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 23202285OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- Volapük: “Hawes”
- Welsh: “Hawes”
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