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.Photo: Cyberdemon007, Public domain.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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 Gayle Mill.
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.
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.
Dales Countryside Museum
Museum
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Dales Countryside Museum is a local museum which also functions as a visitor centre 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gayle and Burtersett.
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.
Burtersett
Hamlet
Photo: Roger Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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 Village is 1 mile north of the town of Hawes across the River Ure.
Hawes
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Hawes from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Hawes”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hardraw and Appersett.
North Yorkshire: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into York, Middlesbrough, Scarborough, and Ripon.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.