Feetham

Feetham
Feetham
	Looking south into Swaledale with Feetham below
	Feetham Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SD986983
Unitary authority	North Yorkshire;
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 54°22′51″N 2°01′19″W / 54.3809°N 2.02208°W

Feetham is a hamlet opposite Low Row in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England.^[1]^[2]

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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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