Feetham
Appearance
Feetham | |
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![]() Looking south into Swaledale with Feetham below | |
Location within North Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SD986983 |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Feetham is a hamlet opposite Low Row in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England.[1][2]
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The origin of the place-name is from Old Norse and means place at the riverside meadows; it appears as Fytun in 1242.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 98 Wensleydale & Upper Wharfedale (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 9780319231586.
- ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 185. ISBN 9780199609086.
External links
[edit] Media related to Feetham at Wikimedia Commons