Malham, North Yorkshire

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Malham is a village in North Yorkshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Malham within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Malham in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Malham, township and vil., Kirkby in Malham Dale par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Aire, 5½ miles E. of Settle, 4282 ac., pop. 148; P.O.; Malham is annually visited by great numbers of tourists, the attractions being Gordale Scar and Malham Cove, a vast amphitheatre of limestone cliffs, 285 ft. high.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Malham Moor, township, Kirkby in Malham Dale par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles NE. of Settle, 10,976 ac., pop. 126; contains Malham Tarn, a lonely lake, beside which is Malham Tarn House.

Malham in the Domesday Book

A village in Craven hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

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