Dales Countryside Museum

The Dales Countryside Museum is a local museum for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Northern England. Run by the National Park Authority, it tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in the Yorkshire Dales for over a 1,000 years. The basis of the museum was a collection of artefacts gathered by Marie Hartley, Ella Pontefract and Joan Ingilby.

1. The Museum

The museum is located beside the disused Hawes railway station in the small town of Hawes at the head of Wensleydale. The museum's outdoor display includes a real steam train and carriages on the track bed of the former Wensleydale Railway. The railway station remains in its original site, now part of Museum building. Since 2015, part of the redundant station has been rented to a business operating a bike shop and later, also a cafe. The steam engine (a Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Works No 7845, No.12, Current number 67345 0-6-0T) was built in 1955 by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn to work at Hams Hall Power Station at Sutton Coldfield. Little is known about the early preservation history of the locomotive although it was at Sheringham on the North Norfolk railway in 1975/76. It moved to Ruddington, at what is now the Great Central Railway at Nottingham, in 1998 for cosmetic restoration. For many years the locomotive has been on display at the Dales countryside Museum at Hawes at Wensleydale. It carries the number 67345 as this was the number of the NER G5 class locomotive which hauled the last passenger train out of Hawes station in 1959. The last freight train used the line in 1964 after which the line was lifted.

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1. External links

Official website "Dales Countryside Museum". Yorkshire Dales: National Park Authority. Archived from the original on 28 January 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.

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Hawes railway station

Hawes railway station served the town of Hawes, in North Yorkshire, England. It was closed in 1959 and now forms part of the Dales Countryside Museum. Since 2015, the museum has rented the building to a business operating a bike shop and, later, a cafe.

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Hawes

Hawes is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, situated at the head of Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, and historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire. The parish had a population of 1,137 according to the 2011 census. The parish of Hawes includes the neighbouring hamlet of Gayle. Hawes lies approximately 31.2 miles (50.2 km) west of the county town of Northallerton. It is renowned as a major producer of Wensleydale cheese. Hawes is located within the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is a popular tourist destination. A local non-profit organisation works to secure funding to maintain and reopen community amenities.

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White Hart Inn, Hawes

The White Hart Inn is a hotel in Hawes, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The inn claims 16th-century origins, but the current building is a principally 18th-century coaching inn. By the 1820s, it was one of two coaching inns in the town, with carriers to Askrigg, Halifax, Kendal and Richmond. It continues to operate as a hotel, with two dining rooms and a bar. It has been grade II listed since 1952. The hotel is built of stone with chamfered rusticated quoins and a stone slate roof. It has three storeys and six bays. In the second bay is a doorway that has a 17th-century lintel with decorative moulding, The fourth bay contains a doorway with a moulded surround, paterae, an inscribed frieze and a cornice. The windows are sashes, and at the rear is a round-arched staircase window. Inside is the original 18th-century staircase.

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St Margaret's Church, Hawes

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