Walden Head

Walden Head
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Walden Head is located in North Yorkshire
Walden Head
Walden Head
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54°13′19″N 2°01′29″W / 54.22202°N 2.02467°W / 54.22202; -2.02467

Walden Head is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire. It lies 5 miles (8 km) of Aysgarth and to the north is a similar village Walden.[1] The village lies in the civil parish of Burton-cum-Walden.

The hamlet is bisected by Walden Beck which runs for 9 miles (14.3 km) from the watershed on Buckden Pike to Bishopdale Beck just before it flows under the A684 road in the valley.[2] The road from West Burton peters out just south of the hamlet, but an old packhorse track goes over Buckden Pike and ends in the village of Starbotton.[3]

Walden Head, like the other small settlements in the Walden Valley, have changed little over modern times.[4] The Walden Valley is sometimes referred to as Waldendale, but this is not common.[5] The name Walden means 'Valley of the Welsh'.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "OL30" (Map). Yorkshire Dales - Northern & Central Area. 1;25,000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319263358.
  2. ^ "Walden Beck from Source to Bishopdale Beck". environment.data.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  3. ^ Marsh, Terry (2005). The Dales Way (2 ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-85284-464-6.
  4. ^ a b Reid, Mark. "Walden & Harland Hill" (PDF). The Northern Echo. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Waldendale, a tributary valley of Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales". www.yorkshire-dales.com. Retrieved 23 October 2017.

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