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 through time
Swaledale is now part of Richmondshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Richmondshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Swaledale itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Swaledale, in Richmondshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24722
Date accessed: 24th May 2024
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