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Beamsley
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Beamsley is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is just within the boundary of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and about six miles east of Skipton and two miles north of Addingham. The village lies immediately south of the A59 road and on the eastern bank of the River Wharfe. The name Beamsley derives from the Old English beðmelēah meaning 'wood or clearing at the valley bottom.
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- United Kingdom
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- Craven
- Population
- 139
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- Beamsley
- postal code
- BD23
- OS grid reference
- SE077524
- historic county
- Yorkshire
- P8168
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Beamsley is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is just within the boundary of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and about six miles east of Skipton and two miles north of Addingham. The village lies immediately south of the A59 road and on the eastern bank of the River Wharfe. The name Beamsley derives from the Old English beðmelēah meaning 'wood or clearing at the valley bottom.
According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 149, reducing to 139 at the 2011 Census. The parish is bordered by West Yorkshire to the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beamsley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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