Bouthwaite

Bouthwaite
Bouthwaite
Bouthwaite shown within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE1271
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HARROGATE
Postcode district HG3
Police North Yorkshire
Fire North Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber

Bouthwaite is a hamlet in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated in Nidderdale, close to the village of Ramsgill. The Nidderdale Way and Six Dales Trail both pass through the hamlet.

The place is first mentioned in 1184 as Burtheit. The toponym means "cottage or store-house clearing", from the Old Norse búr and þveit.[1] Fountains Abbey owned the land in the Middle Ages and established a grange at Bouthwaite.[2]

Between 1907 and 1930 Bouthwaite was the site of Ramsgill railway station on the Nidd Valley Light Railway.[3]

Upper Nidderdale near Bouthwaite

References

  1. ↑ Smith, A.H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 202.
  2. ↑ Jennings, Bernard (1992). A History of Nidderdale. p. 88. ISBN 1-85072-114-9.
  3. ↑ Gordon Suggitt (2010) [2005]. Lost Railways of North & East Yorkshire. Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books. ISBN 9781853069185.

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