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Gorse (also called Furze or Whin) is an evergreen shrub belonging to the Ulex genus. A Dale is a valley, the word is particularly common in Yorkshire, England. So Gorse-Dale would have derived from a valley where gorse grew. Gorse likes acid soils which are common on moorlands and other peaty places. So the name probably originated in a moorland Yorkshire valley on the slopes of the Pennines.

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