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Low Row
Village in North Yorkshire, England
Village in North Yorkshire, England
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| country | England |
| static_image | Low Row.jpg |
| static_image_caption | Entering Low Row |
| coordinates | |
| official_name | Low Row |
| unitary_england | North Yorkshire |
| lieutenancy_england | North Yorkshire |
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| post_town | RICHMOND |
| postcode_district | DL11 |
| postcode_area | DL |
| os_grid_reference | SD980978 |
Low Row is a village in Swaledale, in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. It lies about 3 mi west of Reeth and is between Healaugh and Gunnerside. It is part of the civil parish of Melbecks. It is a linear village running along one road, the B6270. To the east, Low Row merges with the settlement of Feetham.
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
A working farm, Hazel Brow Farm, is open to visitors and The Punch Bowl, a stone inn dated 1638, is by the main road.
History
The name Low Row comes from the Norse "The Wra" (a nook). The surname "Raw" is associated with the village. The village was raided by Jacobites in 1745, and bodies probably from that raid are buried at Holy Trinity Church, Melbecks, in Low Row.
On 5 July 2014, the Tour de France Stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate passed through the village.
Smarber Chapel and Low Row United Reformed Church
It was a small, simple building; the lower part of the dry-stone wall remains and shows evidence of plaster and the location of a window. At the east end, an adjoining barn still stands. This also shows traces of plaster and windows and is considered originally to have been a cottage attached to the chapel. It is known that Wharton bought land near Kirkby Stephen, the income from which was to support a minister at Smarber.
References
References
- Smith, Roly. (2008). "Swaledale". Frances Lincoln Ltd.
- Fleming, Andrew. (1998). "Swaledale: valley of the wild river". Edinburgh University Press.
- (2004). "The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your Landscape". Routledge.
- Scholes, Ron. (2006). "Yorkshire Dales". Hunter Publishing Inc..
- "Tour de France Stage 1".
- Wadsworth, K. W., Philip, ''Lord Wharton – Revolutionary Aristocrat?'' Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society Volume 4 No 8 May 1991(being the 1990 Annual Lecture of the Society)
- Stell, Christopher ''An inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in the north of England'' 1994 Page 215
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- Dale, Bryan, ''The Good Lord Wharton'', revised edition 1906
- Whitehead, T. ''History of the Dales Congregational Churches'', Keighley 1930. p.151.
- The Christian World 27 August 1875
- ''A Church Renewed'', Low Row United Reformed Church, 1974
- Conran, Elizabeth, ''Dissent in the Two Dales 1662–2012'', 2012
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