Cotterdale

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Cotterdale
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Cotterdale and the hamlet of the same name
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Cotterdale
Location within North Yorkshire
Population12  [1]
OS grid reference SD833940
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Hawes
Postcode district DL8
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54°20′28″N2°15′36″W / 54.341°N 2.260°W / 54.341; -2.260

Cotterdale is a small side dale and hamlet on the north side of Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England. The dale lies to the west of Great Shunner Fell. It is drained by East Gill and West Gill, which between them have nine waterfalls. They join to form Cotterdale Beck, which flows over three more waterfalls, including Cotter Force, below which the beck joins the River Ure. [2]

Historically it formed part of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the wapentake of Hang West. [3] . From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. It is part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

The place name is thought to be derived from the Old Norse kotar, meaning "huts". [4]

An Iron Age sword, with bronze scabbard, was found in Cotterdale, and is now in the British Museum. [5]

A Primitive Methodist chapel existed in Cotterdale from 1835 to 1967; the chapel building is now a private house. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Aboutbritain.com website
  2. ↑ Bagshaw, Mike (2014). Slow Travel - Yorkshire Dales. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 116. ISBN   978 1 84162 549 2.
  3. ↑ "Genuki: Aysgarth Supplementary, Yorkshire (North Riding)". genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Cotterdale", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN   978 0 521 16855 7
  5. ↑ "Kit guide:swords". Vicus. Archived from the original on 4 August 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Cotterdale Primitive Methodist Chapel North Yorkshire". My Primitive Methodists. Retrieved 6 December 2025.

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