- Gunnerside
infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Gunnerside
latitude= 54.37943
longitude= -2.07605
population =
shire_district=Richmondshire
region= Yorkshire and the Humber
shire_county =North Yorkshire
constituency_westminster=
MP=
post_town= DARLINGTON
postcode_district = DL11
postcode_area= DL
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= SD951982Gunnerside is a village in
Swaledale ,North Yorkshire ,England , situated between theRiver Swale and its tributary, Gunnerside Beck.Gunnerside Ghyll (or Gunnerside Gill), a smaller valley running North, perpendicular to the Swale valley (Swaledale), was the site of a majorleadmining industry in Swaledale until the late nineteenth century.Gunnerside is the site of a traditional Yorkshire Dalespublic house at the foot of Gunnerside Ghyll, The Kings Head, as well as a Methodist Chapel, a part-time post office (in the Literary Institute), a primary (elementary) school and a working smithy/museum. Local employment centres aroundclockmaking ,hill farming ,gamekeeping andconstruction , the latter concerned chiefly with the maintenance of traditional stone-built field walls, houses and barns.External links
* [http://www.gunnerside.info/ Gunnerside.info]
* [http://www.walkingenglishman.com/dales4.htm/ A walk in Gunnerside]
* [http://www.maurich.co.uk/familyhistory/grinton.htm Gunnerside burial records]
* [http://www.gunnerside.info/Places/Gunnerside_Methodist_Primary_School.html/ Gunnerside school]
* [http://www.kingsheadgunnerside.co.uk/ The Kings Head]ee also
*Operation Gunnerside, which may have got its name because the participants trained near Gunnerside.
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