About Reeth - Small Town in Yorkshire Dales

Reeth is a small town in the Yorkshire Dales within the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England and principal settlement of Swaledale. It is situated at the meeting point of the two most northerly of the Yorkshire Dales - Swaledale and Arkengarthdale.

In Saxon times Reeth was only a settlement on the forest edge, but by the time of the Norman Conquest it had grown sufficiently in importance to be noted in the Domesday Book.

Later it became a centre for hand-knitting and the local lead industry was controlled from here, but it was always a market town for the local farming community. Its 18th-century houses and hotels are clustered around a triangular green. The town has three pubs all situated on the green. They are the Black Bull, the King's Arms and the Buck Hotel. The town is overlooked by the fells of Fremington Edge and Calver Hill.

Pictures in and Around the Village of Reeth

Please click on one of the thumb-nail images to see a bigger image. For views of the holiday cottage, please navigate to the about half moon house holiday cottage page.

View of North Yorks Moors	View of farm in Reeth
View of Reeth Village	View outside of the holiday cottage
Birdsong in Spring	Half Moon House in distance
Village Shop in Reeth	Overton House cafe in the village
Gift shop in the village	The Copper Kettle in Reeth
Bakery in Reeth	Old water pump in the village
Church on the Village Green	Hoarding outside Black Bull Public House

Swaledale Music Festival

In May and June every year, Reeth becomes the hub of the Swaledale Festival, a two-week celebration of small-scale music and guided walks. Additionally on the final Wednesday of August, the Reeth Show, an agricultural event, is held. In 2012 the show will enter its centenary year.

The website of the Swaledale Music Festival can be accessed by following this link.

The Yorkshire Dales

The North York Moors (also known as the North Yorkshire Moors) is a national park in North Yorkshire, England. The moors are one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom, covering an area of 1,436 km² (554 square miles), and it has a population of about 25,000. The North York Moors became a National Park in 1952, through the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949.