Askrigg houses [10]
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Askrigg houses [10]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 22 Jun 2022
Wharton House, seen here, and Wendal House Image, in Main Street, were built in the late 18th or early 19th century. Constructed of coursed rubble stone under a stone slate roof. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1131187 Askrigg is a small, linear village in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, some 10 miles west of Leyburn, and 5 miles east of Hawes. Settled since the Iron Age, the name Askrigg is Old Norse - askr (ash tree) and hryggr (ridge), - the ridge where ash trees grew. The village was granted a weekly Market Charter by Elizabeth I in 1587. More recently, the village served as the fictional town of Darrowby in the 1978-1990 BBC TV series ‘All Creatures Great and Small’.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.314968
Longitude
-2.080297
