Healaugh, Richmondshire

For the place in Selby district, see Healaugh, Tadcaster.

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Healaugh is located in North Yorkshire
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54°23′14″N 1°58′29″W / 54.38709°N 1.97477°W / 54.38709; -1.97477

Healaugh (pronounced "hee-law")[1] is a small village in the civil parish of Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh, in Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales. It is in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England and lies about 1 mile west of Reeth.

The name Healaugh is derived from a Saxon word (Heah) meaning a high-level forest clearing.[2]

The village is small, with no amenities except a stone trough fed by a hillside stream,[1] and the village telephone box. The latter is unusually well endowed, with a carpet, waste paper bin, ash tray, directories and fresh flowers. Visitors may leave a donation.[2]

On 5 July 2014, the Tour de France Stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate passed through the village.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Herriot Way". Sherpa Expeditions Limited. 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2007.
  2. ^ a b Dalesman Publishing Ltd (9 April 2002). "Healaugh and the River Swale from Reeth". Dalesman magazine. Retrieved 29 June 2007.
  3. ^ "Tour de France Stage 1". Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.