Gunnerside
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| Gunnerside | |
  Gunnerside shown within North Yorkshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| District | Richmondshire |
| Shire county | North Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DARLINGTON |
| Postcode district | DL11 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| European Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire | |
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 North, perpendicular to the Swale valley (Swaledale), was the site of a 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 maintenance 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.
