Feetham

{{Short description|Hamlet in North Yorkshire, England}}

{{Other uses|Feetham (surname)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

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| country = England

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| static_image_caption = Looking south into Swaledale with Feetham below

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| official_name = Feetham

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| unitary_england = North Yorkshire

| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

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| os_grid_reference = SD986983

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Feetham is a hamlet opposite Low Row in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 98 Wensleydale & Upper Wharfedale|isbn= 9780319231586 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2009}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html |title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer |format=csv (download) |date= 1 January 2016 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |accessdate=18 February 2016}}

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

File:The Punch Bowl Inn , Feetham , dated 1638. - geograph.org.uk - 178619.jpg

The origin of the place-name is from Old Norse and means place at the riverside meadows; it appears as Fytun in 1242.{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of British Place Names|first1= A.D.|last1= Mills|publisher=Oxford University Press| location=Oxford| orig-year= first published 1991|date=2011|edition=First edition revised 2011|isbn=9780199609086|page=185}}

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