Links and References

Interesting and useful local links

Websites that may be of wider interest.

Marske

Marske Choir is a community choir for the local people of Marske and surrounding districts in Swaledale. It welcomes all-comers without audition. Highly recommended.

Marske and New Forest Parish Council website. The parish covers the area between the Swale and the watershed of Marske Beck, including New Forest, Helwith, Skelton, Clints, Marske, Feldom Ranges and West Applegarth.

Church of England parish covering St Mary’s Richmond, Marske, Hudswell and Downholme.

Beyond

Barningham local website – including local history and a link to the monthly newsletter “The Flyer”.

Bellerby local website – village website with some local history.

Gayles info website – covering everything about Gayles

Green Howard Museum in Richmond. Museum relating to the Green Howards regiment, and sucessor regiments, including the Yorkshire Regiment. Museum also contains Richmond Town silver, including the Snow Tankard.

Keld resource centre website – focussing on Upper Swaledale, and including some of the archives from the Swaledale Museum in Reeth.

Ravensworth local website – village website with some local history.

Reeth memorial hall website and calendar of events.

Hudson House Community Information Centre website – Reeth.

Richmond Civic Society website.

Richmond Information Centre website. Volunteer-run tourist and local information centre. Very useful website and physical presence in the Old Market Hall in Richmond.

Richmondshire Museum website. Museum is an incorporated charity in Richmond.

Swaledale museum. Museum in Reeth including a range of displays on the geology, archaeology, and history of Swaledale.

Swaledale website – a personal website about Swaledale and other Dales

Swaledale and Arkengarthdale Archaeology Group – website. Also includes material on local history, nature and geology.

Two Dales website covering Swaledale and Arkengarthdale – and including archive of Reeth and District Gazette, a monthly magazine which is distributed widely in hard copy

More links will be added in due course. It is not the intention to add commercial and business links here.

General reference material

Overall

Local Contributors. A number of local contributors have informed this website. A record is kept on file of their specific contributions.

Pontefract, Ella and Hartley, Marie. 1934 (third edition, 1988). Swaledale.

Rees, David Morgan. 2000. In the Palm of the Dale.  A portrait of farm and village life written by a regular visitor to the village. The book contains a large number of high quality and insightful photos of the village, and is a facinating record of the village in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Photo of book cover, including photomontage of three village scenes from between 1980 and 2000.
Cover of “In the Palm of the Dale” by David Morgan Rees1. Photo is reproduced here with the kind permission of David Morgan Rees.

History

Catterick and Feldom Conservation Group. c1991. West Feldom. Well put together, privately published booklet, covering geology, archaeology, history, fauna and flora of the Feldom ranges. Copy of booklet is here.

Fieldhouse, R and Jennings, B. 1978. A History of Richmond and Swaledale. A very detailed history of the area – 500 pages.

Hart-Davis, Rupert. 1998. Halfway to Heaven.

Hatcher, Jane. 2004. The History of Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Hatcher, Jane. 2020. Timothy Hutton (1779-1863) of Clifton Castle and Marske in Swaledale.  2020.  A thoroughly well-written book about his life and surroundings. Taken in part from his diaries.

James, Serenhedd. 2016. George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England.

Raine, James. 1860. Marske. A Small Contribution Towards Yorkshire Topography. On-demand reprint available from British Library.

Raine, James. 1880. Marske in Swaledale. Yorkshire Archaelogical Journal, Vol VI, pp172 to 286. Made available through Google Books. A detailed summary of medieval and later history – and the probable source for much material in the Victoria County History. James Raine based some of his work on conversations with the Hutton family. Covers manors of Marske, Clints, Skelton and West Applegarth.

Tanner, Nancy and Abramson, Phil (Eds). 2014. From Farms to Arms.  History of Catterick Military Training Area. 

Victoria County History (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1).  Various sections in North Riding, Volume 1, including The honour and castle of Richmond.  Parishes of Marske, Kirby Ravensworth, Arkengarthdale, Barningham.  Accessed 2023.  Published 1914. 

Wainright, A. A Coast-to-Coast Walk. 1973.

Wakefield Historical Publications. 1979. Samuel Buck’s Yorkshire Sketchbook.

Waterson, Edward and Meadows, Peter. 1990. Lost Houses of York and the North Riding.

Wright, G.N..  Roads and Trackways of The Yorkshire Dales.  Moorland Publishing Company. 1985.

Land and Landscape

BGS (British Geological Survey). 1985.  Geology of the Northern Pennine Orefield: Volume 2:  Stainmore to Craven.  Highly detailed memoir.

BGS (British Geological Survey). 1997. Richmond, Sheet 41. 1:50 000 Geological Map.  Also available as an app through the British Geological Survey.

BGS (British Geological Survey). Fourth Edition, 2002.  The Pennines and adjacent areas.  Part of British Regional Geology series – very descriptive with some explanatory material. 

BGS (British Geological Survey). Fifth Edition, 2010.  Northern England.  Part of British Regional Geology series – very descriptive with some explanatory material. 

Johnson, David. 2018. Lime Kilns. History and Heritage.

Northern Mines Reseach Society. (Author: Tyson, L.O.) 1994. Mining and Smelting in the Marske Area, Swaledale. British Mining Memoirs, Number 50.

Raistrick, Arthur. 1975 (1991). The Lead Industry of Wensleydale and Swaledale. Vol 1. The Mines.

www.geologynorth.uk.  Accessed 2022. Useful and well explained website on some features of geology of north (mainly Pennines and Northumberland).  Good descriptive section of Northern Pennine Orefield. 

Nature

Fallows, Laurie. 2004. Wild Flowers and where to find them in Northern England. Volume 1: Northern Limestone.

Mitchel, W R. 1998. Birds of the Yorkshire Dales.

Outdoor activities

George and Dragon. Walks from the George and Dragon. 2020. Walks mainly on south side of Swaledale. George and Dragon, Hudswell is a great pub.

Hannon, Paul. Walks in Swaledale. Excellent pocket book with clear maps of a varied set of walks in the area. 1987.

Huggins, M. A Short History of Richmond Racecourse and its Grandstand. 2021. Richmond Burbage Pastures Publishing.

Wainwright, Alfred. A Coast to Coast Walk: A Pictorial Guide. 2003. Frances Lincoln.

 

  1. Rees, David Morgan. 2000. In the Palm of the Dale. a portrait in words and pictures of a Yorkshire Dales village.[↩]