Carlton Highdale, North Riding

Description
Carlton-Highdale, a township in Coverham parish, N. R. Yorkshire, in Highdale, 9 miles SW of Middleham. The nearest station is Leyburn on the N.E.R. It includes the village of Horsehouse, and the hamlets of Gammersgill, Bradley, Woodale, and Hindlethwaite. Acreage, 10,138 ; population, 204. There are slate quarries. The surface is the upper part of a mountain vale, traversed by a tributary of the river Ure, and ascends in high bleak tracts, called Carlton Moors, at the boundary with the West Riding.