Hawes
Hawes is a little market community and civil parish in Upper Wensleydale in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, that was granted its market charter in 1699. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, Hawes is located at the head of Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales; the River Ure goes to the north of the town and is considered as among the honeypot traveler attractions of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is called the home to the Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese. The population in 2011 was 887; the approximated population in 2016 was 893. The parish of Hawes additionally includes the neighbouring community of Gayle. The population of the full parish was 1,137 in 2011 as well as was estimated at 1,138 in 2016. Hawes is 31.2 miles (50.2 kilometres) west of the county town of Northallerton. The Wensleydale Creamery is a significant manufacturer of Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese. Described by Reader's Digest as The Village That Refused to Die, Hawes has a very energetic non-profit neighborhood group that looks for funding and uses the money to re-open maintain neighborhood amenities that were closing.
