Reeth is a small town in the Yorkshire Dales located in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England and principal settlement of Swaledale. It can be found at the meeting point of the two most northerly of the Yorkshire Dales, Swaledale and Arkengarthdale.
In Saxon times Reeth was merely a settlement on the forest edge, but by the time of the Norman Conquest it had grown sufficiently in importance to be recorded in the Domesday Book.
It later became a centre for hand-knitting and the local lead industry was run from here, but it was always known mainly as a market town for the local farming community. Its eighteenth-century houses, hotels and buildings are clustered around a triangular green. The town has three pubs situated on the green, being the Black Bull, the Kings Arms and the Buck Hotel and is overlooked by the fells of Fremington Edge and Calver Hill.
In May and June each year, Reeth becomes the centre of the Swaledale Festival, a two-week celebration of small-scale music and guided walks.
