Gunnerside is a village in the

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district of

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, England. It is situated on the B6270 road, east of

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and west of

Grinton Grinton is a small village and civil parish in the Yorkshire Dales, in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. Close to Reeth and Fremington, it lies west of Richmond on the B6270 road. On 5 July 2014, the Tour de France St ...

. The village lies between the

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and its tributary, Gunnerside Beck, in the

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part of the

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National Park.

History

The name of the village derives from an Old Norse personal name ''Gunnar'' and ''sætr'' meaning hill or pasture. Gunnerside Ghyll (or Gunnerside Gill), a smaller valley running northwards, at right angles to the Swale valley (Swaledale), was the site of a major

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mining industry in Swaledale until the late nineteenth century. The beck that runs through the narrow valley, also called Gunnerside Gill, or Gunnerside Beck, rises between Rogan's Seat and Water Crag, and runs for emptying into the River Swale at the site of Gunnerside New Bridge. The bridge carries the B6270 over the River Swale south of the village; it was rebuilt several times during the 19th century due to flooding. The current structure dates from around 1892 and is now grade II listed. Gunnerside contains a

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, a part-time post office, and a working smithy/museum. The chapel was founded in 1789, but rebuilt in 1866. The structure is now

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listed. A private building to the north of the crossroads in the village was the site of a Medieval corn mill, and in the early 20th century, a bus garage. The village primary school is one of two sites of the

Reeth Reeth is a village west of Richmond in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, in the civil parish of Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is the principal settlement of uppe ...

and Gunnerside Schools. At the last

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inspection in 2013, the primary school was rated as ''Good''. At the foot of Gunnerside Ghyll is the Kings Head

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. Local employment centres on

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and

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, the latter concerned chiefly with the maintenance of traditional stone-built field walls, houses and barns.

Notable people

John Close John Close, also known as Poet Close, was born on 11 August 1816 at Gunnerside and died at Kirkby Stephen on 15 February 1891. He was an enterprising and prolific writer of working class origin who catered to the English Lake District tourist t ...

, poet, was born in the village in 1816 File:2014 Fields Swaledale Gunnerside.jpg, Stone barns in the meadows near Gunnerside New Bridge File:Methodist Church, Gunnerside.JPG, Methodist Church

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External links

Map of the village buildings

Gunnerside.info

(web archive)

Gunnerside school
{{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire Swaledale

History

Notable people

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