Walden is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales

Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales is the name given to an upland area in Northern England.The area lies within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire, though it spans the ceremonial counties of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Cumbria...

, North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...

, about 5 miles south of Aysgarth

Aysgarth

Aysgarth is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale, in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. The village is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, about sixteen miles south-west from Richmond...

. Another hamlet of a similar name Walden Head

Walden Head

Walden Head is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire. it lies about 8 miles south of Aysgarth and to the north is a similar village Walden....

is further south. The name Walden may come from a contraction of wolf's den. Another theory is that the name comes from the Anglo-Saxon words "wealh" (meaning forigners and used for Britons - hence "Welsh") and "denu" (meaning valley).