Marsett
Coordinates: 54°16′18″N 2°09′00″W / 54.27173°N 2.14991°W
Marsett is one of 3 settlements in around Semer Water in Raydale, a small side dale off Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England. Marsett is only a hamlet and lies to the south-west of the lake, at a point where a smaller side dale, Bardale, joins Raydale.
The hamlet consists of two farms and ten permanent dwellings, together with a number of holiday cottages.[1] There is also a Methodist chapel, built in 1897.[2]
The name, first recorded in 1283 as Mouressate, is from the Old Norse Maures sætr, meaning 'the shieling of a man named Maurr' (a nickname meaning 'ant').[3]
References
- ↑ The Dales website:The Village of Marsett
- ↑ North Yorkshire Dales Methodist Circuit website
- ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Marsett", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978 0 521 16855 7
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