Feetham

Feetham
Feetham
	; Looking south into Swaledale with Feetham below
	Feetham Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SD986983
District	Richmondshire;
Shire county	North Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
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]

Punch Bowl Inn, Feetham

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

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.

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