We could not match "WENSLEYDALE" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 13 possible matches we have found for you:

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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  WENSLEYDALE	Modern (2024) Ward	NORTHUMBERLAND UA (District/Unitary Authority)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WENSLEYDALE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  AMPTHILL	Bedfordshire	Wensleydale. A castle was built on it, in the time of Henry VI., by Sir John Cornwall, afterwards Lord Fanhope	Imperial
  AYSGARTH	Yorkshire	Wensleydale and Bishopdale, 4 miles ESE of Askrigg, and 7½ WSW of Leyburn r. station. It has a post	Imperial
  BOLTON-CASTLE, or Castle-Bolton	Yorkshire	Wensleydale, 5½ miles WNW of Leyburn r. station. Post Town, Leyburn, under Bedale. Acres, 5,160. Real property, £1,578. Pop., 259. Houses	Imperial
  BURTON-CUM-WALDEN, or West Burton	Yorkshire	Wensleydale, 3 miles SW of Aysgarth. It has a post office, of the name of West Burton, under Bedale; and fairs	Imperial
  HAWES	Yorkshire	Wensleydale, amid picturesque upland scenery, near Hardraw force, 6 miles WSW of Askrigg, and 16½ W by S of Leyburn	Imperial
  LEYBURN	Yorkshire	Wensleydale, at the terminus of the Northallerton and Leyburn railway, 7½ miles SSW of Richmond; consists chiefly of one spacious	Imperial
  PENHILL	Yorkshire	Wensleydale, in N. R. Yorkshire; 5½ miles S W by W of Leyburn. It consists of gritstone, while all thetract	Imperial
  Penhill Beacon	Yorkshire	Penhill Beacon , gritstone eminence, North-Riding Yorkshire, in Wensleydale, 5 miles W. of Middleham, alt. 1685 ft.	Bartholomew
  Simmer Water	Yorkshire	Simmer Water , lake, in Wensleydale, North-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles S. of Askrigg.	Bartholomew
  URE (The)	Yorkshire	valley, down to Jervaux abbey, is called Wensleydale; and its lower valley is part of the great champaign of York.	Imperial
  WENSLEY	Yorkshire	Wensleydale to the Ure's valley from its head down to Jervaux abbey; is a pretty place; and has a post	Imperial
  Wensleydale	Yorkshire	Wensleydale , valley of the river Ure, North-Riding Yorkshire, from its head to Jervaux valley.	Bartholomew

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