Keld
Keld is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire. It is in Swaledale, and the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The name derives from the Viking word Kelda meaning a spring and the village was once called Appletre Kelde – the spring near the apple trees.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kreuzschnabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Keld, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Catrake Force and Kisdon Force.
Catrake Force
Waterfall
Photo: mauldy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Catrake Force is a waterfall on the River Swale in North Yorkshire, England. It is not visible from the road but is accessible via a campsite in Keld. It comprises a series of four steps, each its own small waterfall, and each with a very different character – the largest single drop being about 20 feet.
Kisdon Force
Waterfall
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kisdon Force is a series of waterfalls on the River Swale in Swaledale, England. The falls are situated within the Yorkshire Dales National Park in the county of North Yorkshire, 500 metres downstream from the small hamlet of Keld at grid reference NY898010.
Wain Wath Force
Waterfall
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wain Wath Force is a waterfall on the River Swale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England. The falls are at grid reference NY883015, 0.6 miles upstream from the hamlet of Keld which has three other waterfalls in its vicinity.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Angram and West Stonesdale.
Angram
Hamlet
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Angram is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is near Keld to the north and Thwaite to the south. Angram forms part of the civil parish of Muker.
West Stonesdale
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Stonesdale is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. The secluded village is near Keld to the south, Tan Hill to the north and is both 10 miles from Grinton and Askrigg.
Muker
Hamlet
Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Muker is a village and civil parish at the western end of Swaledale in North Yorkshire, England, within the Yorkshire Dales. The parish includes the hamlets and villages of Angram, Keld, Thwaite, West Stonesdale and Birkdale, as well as the Tan Hill Inn, the highest in England. Muker is situated 2½ miles southeast of Keld.
Keld
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.4059° or 54° 24′ 21″ northLongitude
-2.1664° or 2° 9′ 59″ westElevation
1,070 feet (326 metres)Open location code
9C6VCR4M+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 478806610OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Western Panjabi—“Keld” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Keld, North Yorkshire”
- French: “Keld”
- Irish: “Keld”
- Polish: “Keld”
- Western Panjabi: “کیلڈ”
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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 “Keld”. Photo: Kreuzschnabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.