Gunnerside
Gunnerside | |
Gunnerside shown within North Yorkshire
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OS grid reference | SD951982 |
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– London | 210 mi (340 km) SE |
Civil parish | Melbecks |
District | Richmondshire |
Shire county | North Yorkshire |
Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | DARLINGTON |
Postcode district | DL11 |
Dialling code | 01748 |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
UK Parliament | Richmond (Yorks) |
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Gunnerside is a village in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the B6270 road, 3 miles east of Muker and 6 miles west of Reeth. The village lies between the River Swale and its tributary, Gunnerside Beck, in the Swaledale part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Gunnerside Ghyll (or Gunnerside Gill), a smaller valley running northwards, at right angles to the Swale valley (Swaledale), was the site of a major lead mining industry in Swaledale until the late nineteenth century.
Gunnerside contains a Methodist Chapel, a part-time post office, and a working smithy/museum. The village primary school is one of two sites of the Reeth and Gunnerside Schools. At the foot of Gunnerside Ghyll is the Kings Head public house. At the south of the village is the Grade II listed 1830s Gunnerside New Bridge over the River Swale.[1]
Local employment centres on clockmaking, hill farming, gamekeeping and construction, the latter concerned chiefly with the maintenance of traditional stone-built field walls, houses and barns.
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Gunnerside village in Swaledale.jpg
Looking north to Gunnerside
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Methodist Church, Gunnerside.JPG
Methodist Church
See also
- Operation Gunnerside, which may have got its name because the participants trained near Gunnerside.[citation needed]
References
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External links
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