Gunnerside
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Gunnerside is a village in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, situated between the River Swale and its tributary, Gunnerside Beck. Gunnerside Ghyll (or Gunnerside Gill), a smaller valley running North, perpendicular to the Swale valley (Swaledale), was a site of major leadmining 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 maintaince of traditional stone-built field walls, houses and barns.
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- Operation Gunnerside, which may have got its name because the participants trained near Gunnerside.
