Colsterdale
{{Short description|Valley in North Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
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| official_name = Colsterdale
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| civil_parish = Colsterdale
| unitary_england = North Yorkshire
| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire
| region = Yorkshire and the Humber
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| post_town = RIPON
| postcode_district = HG4
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| os_grid_reference = SE130813
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Colsterdale is the valley of the River Burn, a tributary of the River Ure, in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It gives its name to a hamlet and civil parish in the upper part of the dale, about {{convert|7|mi|0}} west of Masham. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 20 in 2010.{{cite web|publisher=North Yorkshire County Council|title=Population Estimates|year=2010|url=http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0|accessdate=29 June 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113133520/http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=16424&p=0|archivedate=13 January 2012}} The lower part of the dale around the hamlet of Gollinglith Foot is in the civil parish of Healey. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
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Although Colsterdale is not in Nidderdale, it lies within the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Colsterdale is part of the privately owned Swinton Estate.
The Colsterdale towers are towers built between 1895 and 1911 to conduct surveys.
History
The name, first recorded in 1281, means "coalman valley". There was a coal mine here in the 14th century.{{cite encyclopedia | contribution = Colsterdale | year = 2010 | title = The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names | editor-last = Watts | editor-first = Victor | volume = | pages = | place = | publisher = Cambridge University Press | id = }}
Colsterdale was historically divided between the parishes of East Witton and Masham in the North Riding of Yorkshire.{{cite web|publisher=Genuki|title=East Witton: Geographical and historical information from the year 1890|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Eastwitton/Eastwitton90.html|accessdate=7 February 2012}} The upper part of the inhabited dale, above Gollinglith Foot, was a detached part of the parish of East Witton (from 1866 a detached part of the civil parish of East Witton Without),Map of Yorkshire Sheet 084, Ordnance Survey, 1848–1857 but in 1886 was transferred to the civil parish of Healey with Sutton, and in 1894 was created a separate civil parish.[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10432091 Vision of Britain: unit history of Healey with Sutton] In 1934 {{convert|2915|acres|0}} of the uninhabited Masham Moor (including the uninhabited part of Colsterdale), an area common to the parishes of Masham and East Witton, was added to the civil parish of Colsterdale.[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10448062/relationships Vision of Britain: Masham Moor] The lower part of the dale became part of the civil parish of Healey with Sutton (known as Healey from 1934) in 1866.
During the First World War Colsterdale was the site of a training camp for the Leeds Pals. There is now a memorial to the Leeds Pals in the dale, erected in 1935.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1433791|accessdate=2 May 2020}} The camp later became a Prisoner of War camp for German Officers.[http://www.wiseacres.org.uk/rienau/ A German P.O.W. in the Dales, 1917–1918] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009012516/http://www.wiseacres.org.uk/rienau/ |date=9 October 2011 }}
The parish now shares a grouped parish council, known as Fearby, Healey and District Parish Council, with Ellingstring, Fearby, Healey and Ilton cum Pott.{{cite web|title=The Parish|publisher=Fearby Healey and District Parish Council|url=http://www.fearbyhealeydistrict-pc.org/#!the-parish/c8de|accessdate=29 April 2020}}
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Category:Villages in North Yorkshire
Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
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