Gammersgill

Gammersgill
Gammersgill
	Looking over pastureland to Gammersgill
	Gammersgill Location within North Yorkshire
Civil parish	Carlton Highdale;
Unitary authority	North Yorkshire;
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire

Gammersgill is a hamlet in Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England.^[1]^[2] It is about 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Leyburn.

The toponym is of Old Norse origin, from Gamall, a personal name, and skali 'hut', so means 'hut of a man named Gamel'.^[3]

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

References

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 98 Wensleydale & Upper Wharfedale (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 9780319231586.
^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
^ Smith, A. H. (1928). The Place-names of the North Riding of Yorkshire (PDF). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.

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