Muker

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Muker Village looking west (photo by Dennis Turner). The beck in the foreground is the Straw Beck, a tributary of the River Swale which it joins a short distance away to the northeast.
Muker Village looking west (photo by Dennis Turner). The beck in the foreground is the Straw Beck, a tributary of the River Swale which it joins a short distance away to the northeast.

Muker is a hamlet in Swaledale, one of the Yorkshire Dales, England.

Muker is at grid reference SD910978, on the banks of the Straw Beck near its confluence with the River Swale.

Although at one time a centre for lead mining, the main economic activities are now woollen clothing, tourism and sheep farming.

The pub is called the Farmers Arms.

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Coordinates: 54°22′33.34″N, 2°8′16.07″W


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