Woodale Explained

Official Name:Woodale
Country:England
Static Image:Woodale - geograph.org.uk - 1411686.jpg
Static Image Caption:Woodale and Coverdale
Unitary England:North Yorkshire
Lieutenancy England:North Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Civil Parish:Carlton Highdale
Coordinates:54.2095°N -1.9684°W

Woodale is a hamlet in Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales in England. It lies in the civil parish of Carlton Highdale in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire. The River Cover flows nearby.[1]

The name Woodale stems from Old English and means Valley of the Wolves.[2]

The hamlet should not be confused with the even smaller settlement of Woodale in the parish of Stonebeck Up in upper Nidderdale. The two places are only 6km (04miles) apart.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parishes: Coverham British History Online. www.british-history.ac.uk. 7 November 2017.
  2. Book: Ekwall. Eilert. The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names. 1960. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 0-19-869103-3. 530. 4.
  3. Yorkshire Dales - Northern & Central Area . OL30 . 2016 . 1;25,000 . Explorer . Ordnance Survey . 9780319263358 .