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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Swaledale like this:
SWALE (The), a river of N. R. Yorkshire; rising on the mountains at the boundary with Westmoreland, 4 miles SE of Kirkby-Stephen; and running eastward and south eastward, past Muker, Reeth, Richmond, Catterick, Maunby, Topcliffe, and Brafferton, to the Ure, 1 mile E of Aldborough. Its length of run is about 60 miles; its basin down to the vicinity of Richmond is a romantic upland vale, called Swaledale; its tributaries there are numerous, but all small; and its chief tributary afterwards is the Wiske.
Swaledale is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Swaledale itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Swaledale, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24722
Date accessed: 13th November 2025
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