Oughtershaw
| Oughtershaw | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 Oughtershaw | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD868815 |
| Location: | 54°13’47"N, 2°12’10"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Skipton |
| Postcode: | BD23 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Craven |
Oughtershaw is a hamlet in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the [Craven]] area amongst the Yorkshire Dales. It is to be found on a road it shares with other small villages; Deepdale, Yockenthwaite and Hubberholme, which road traverses the watershed between Upper Wharfedale and Langstrothdale and Wensleydale over Fleet Moss into Gayle.
The name of the place is first found recorded in 1241 as Huctredsdale, and stems from Uhtred's copse, a personal name.[1] It has had many spellings down the years, being known variously as Ughtershaw, Ughtirshey, Owghtershawe, and Outershaw in the 19th century.[2]
The river running through Oughtershaw is the Oughtershaw Beck, which runs down to Beckermonds and then merges with Greenfield Beck to create the River Wharfe at the Langstrothdale chase.[3]
Oughtershaw is one of the hamlets on the Dales Way a long-distance walk that starts in Ilkley in the West Riding and runs 79 miles to Windermere, in Lancashire.[4]
| “ | Oughtershaw. A piece of bleakest Yorkshire, but smiling in the sunshine through its bare miles of tufted grass. The air had the sharp sweetness which is found only on the top-most Pennines.[5] — James Herriot | ” |
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References
- ↑ Chrystal, Paul (2017). The Place Names of Yorkshire; Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers and Dales, some Pubs too, in Praise of Yorkshire Ales (1 ed.). Catrine: Stenlake. p. 63. ISBN 9781840337532.
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ Brown, L. E.; Cooper, L.; Holden, J.; Ramchunder, S. J. (9 June 2010). "A comparison of stream water temperature regimes from open and afforested moorland, Yorkshire Dales, northern England". Hydrological Processes 24 (22): 3,207. doi:10.1002/hyp.7746. http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/77261/7/Brown%20stream%20temps%202010%20WR_with_coversheet.pdf.
- ↑ Reynolds, Fiona (12 September 2019). "Walking the 79-mile Dales Way: 'The Wharfe is full and raging; we're getting worried messages as people hear about the mayhem'". https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/walking-79-mile-dales-way-wharfe-full-raging-getting-worried-messages-people-hear-mayhem-203522.
- ↑ James Herriot's Yorkshire (1979), James Herriot, St. Martin's