Burdale is a hamlet in North Yorkshire, England, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Malton. It lies in a deep valley (or dale), also known as Burdale, in the Yorkshire Wolds. It is the site of a deserted medieval village.

Burdale was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, when there were 43 villagers, a mill and two churches.^[1] In the 14th century Burdale appears to have been of a reasonable size, significantly larger than its more famous neighbour, Wharram Percy. By the 17th century the village was much reduced.^[2]

Between 1853 and 1950 Burdale had its own railway station, on the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway. Between 1925 and 1955 a large chalk quarry operated at Burdale, and supplied much of the traffic for the railway.^[3]

Burdale was part of the ancient parish of Wharram Percy in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It formed part of the township of Raisthorpe and Burdale, which became a civil parish in 1866.^[4] In 1872 the township became part of the new ecclesiastical parish of Thixendale when it was formed from the ecclesiastical parish of Wharram Percy.^[5] In 1935 the civil parish of Raisthorpe and Burdale was abolished and merged into the new parish of Wharram.^[6] In 1974 Burdale was transferred from the East Riding of Yorkshire to the new county of North Yorkshire and Ryedale District.

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