Swaledale
- a breed of small hardy sheep kept esp in northern England for its coarse wool which is used for making tweeds and carpets
Word Origin
from Swaledale, Yorkshire
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Historical Examples
Wharfedale, Wensleydale, Swaledale, Teesdale—they are all words with a charm in them.
Motor tours in YorkshireMrs. Rodolph Stawell
Then they marched out against the Scots, and found them at Myton in Swaledale.
The History of EnglandT.F. Tout
It afterwards descends rapidly by the side of a gill, and thus enters Swaledale.
Yorkshire Painted And DescribedGordon Home
The weather conditions being so severe, it is not surprising to find that no corn at all is grown in Swaledale at the present day.
Yorkshire Painted And DescribedGordon Home
Away we rambled across the Ure to a small wooded hollow at the foot of Whitfell, in the hills which shut out Swaledale.
A Month in YorkshireWalter White