Hawes
Hawes is a small 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 runs to the north of the town as well as is considered one of the honeypot visitor attractions of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is called the house 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 district of Gayle. The population of the full parish was 1,137 in 2011 and 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 major producer of Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese. Explained by Reader's Digest as The Village That Refused to Die, Hawes has a really energetic non-profit community team that looks for funding and makes use of the cash to re-open maintain area amenities that were closing.
