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.
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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: Dales Countryside Museum and Hardraw Force.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gayle and Burtersett.
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″ north
Longitude
-2.1965° or 2° 11′ 48″ west
Population
887
Elevation
774 feet (236 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB HWE
Open location code
9C6V8R33+M9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Urdu: “ہاوز”
- Volapük: “Hawes”
- Welsh: “Hawes”
- “Hawes”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hardraw and Appersett.
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