Gunnerside
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Gunnerside is a village in Swaledale
, North Yorkshire
, England
, situated between the River Swale
and its tributary, Gunnerside Beck.
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 is the site of a traditional Yorkshire Dales public 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 around clockmaking, hill farming
, gamekeeping and construction
, the latter concerned chiefly with the maintenance of traditional stone-built field walls, houses and barns.
Swaledale
Swaledale is one of the northernmost dales in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England. It is the dale of the River Swale on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire.-Geographical overview:...
, 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...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, situated between the River Swale
River Swale
The River Swale is a river in Yorkshire, England and a major tributary of the River Ure, which itself becomes the River Ouse, emptying into the North Sea via the Humber Estuary....
and its tributary, Gunnerside Beck.
Gunnerside Ghyll
Gunnerside Gill
Gunnerside Gill is a small valley in the Yorkshire Dales which branches off Swaledale into moorland to the north of Gunnerside....
(or Gunnerside Gill), a smaller valley running northwards, at right angles to the Swale valley (Swaledale), was the site of a major lead
Lead
Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed...
mining industry in Swaledale until the late nineteenth century.
Public house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...
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 around clockmaking, hill farming
Hill farming
Hill farming is extensive farming in upland areas, primarily rearing sheep, although historically cattle was often reared more intensively.Cattle farming is usually restricted by a scarcity of winter fodder, and sheep stocks, grazing at about 2 hectares per head, are often taken to lowland areas...
, gamekeeping and construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
, the latter concerned chiefly with the maintenance of traditional stone-built field walls, houses and barns.
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See also
- Operation GunnersideNorwegian heavy water sabotageThe Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of actions undertaken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the German nuclear energy project from acquiring heavy water , which could be used to produce nuclear weapons...
, which may have got its name because the participants trained near Gunnerside.