Gargrave
Sign in to saveGargrave is a large village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located along the A65, north-west of Skipton. The village is situated on the very edge of the Yorkshire Dales; the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal pass through it. It had a population of 1,764 at the 2001 census, reducing slightly to 1,755 in 2011. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and it was part of the Craven District from 1974 to 2023; it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
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Place details
- Locality
- Gargrave
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,755
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Key facts
- UK place.dial_code
- 01756
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Leeds&LiverpoolCanalGargrave.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- A view of the village of Gargrave
- UK place.official_name
- Gargrave
- UK place.population
- 1,755
- UK place.population_ref
- (including Bank Newton)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Gargrave
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.unitary_england
- North Yorkshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- North Yorkshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Skipton and Ripon
- UK place.post_town
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- North Yorkshire
- Population
- +1755
- Image
- Canal crossing the River Aire - geograph.org.uk - 491687.jpg
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Gargrave is a large village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located along the A65, north-west of Skipton. The village is situated on the very edge of the Yorkshire Dales; the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal pass through it. It had a population of 1,764 at the 2001 census, reducing slightly to 1,755 in 2011. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and it was part of the Craven District from 1974 to 2023; it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
==Etymology== Multiple etymologies have been proposed for the name Gargrave. The name may contain Old English gāra in its original meaning of "spear" formed with graf apparently meaning wood, originally meaning "wood from which spear-shafts were cut". The first part of the name may also have had the sense "triangular piece of land" and was replaced by the cognate Old Norse gieri. Also suggested is that the name contains one of the Old Norse names with Geir- (e.g. Geirmundr, Geirlaug) with the Old English termination græf, "grave, trench", Gargrave therefore meaning "grave of the Scandinavian Giermundr, Geirlaug etc". William Wheater thought Gargrave to be derived the Celtic caer and the Saxon gerefa, meaning "the camp or city of the reeve/governor". The element -grave may be a "Celtic lenited" variant of Craven.