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Muker is a village and civil parish at the western end of Swaledale in North Yorkshire, England, within the Yorkshire Dales. The parish includes the hamlets and villages of Angram, Keld, Thwaite, West Stonesdale and Birkdale, as well as the Tan Hill Inn, the highest in England. At the 2001 census the civil parish had a population of 309, reducing to 249 at the 2011 census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 260. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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Arn Gill (North Yorkshire)

Arn Gill is a ravine or gully containing a beck of the same name, near the village of Muker in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England. The ravine and beck run steeply downhill from the stream's source in Arn Gill Head, and the beck disgorges into the River Swale below. The ravine contains remnants of the former Adelaide Level lead mine, which is named after Lady Adelaide Lamont, a descendant of Judge Jeffreys. In 1865 a strike was made there, which yielded about £12,000 (equivalent to £1,449,217 in 2023) worth of galena or lead ore. The mine closed in 1920. Miners worked in bad conditions in North Yorkshire lead mines during the Adelaide Level's era, with over 62% of local mines having extremely impure air. The most common occupational disease for miners was silicosis.

Thwaite, North Yorkshire

Thwaite is a small village in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. It is in Swaledale and is part of the civil parish of Muker. The village lies on the B6270 road that runs through Swaledale from east to west and is 9.3 miles (15 km) west of Reeth. The name "Thwaite" comes from the Old Norse word þveit, meaning 'clearing, meadow or paddock'. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Oxnop Hall

Oxnop Hall is a historic building near Muker in North Yorkshire, in England. The date the farmhouse was built is uncertain, but it has a datestone reading 1685, so was either built or altered at that time. It was the home of George Kearton, a boxer and huntsman, who died in 1764, when he claimed to be 125 years old. The building was grade II* listed in 1966; Historic England describes it as "the best house of its type in Swaledale". In 2018, it remained in use as a farmhouse, and has more recently also served as a bed and breakfast. The house is built of stone on a boulder plinth, with sandstone dressings, quoins and a stone slate roof with stone copings and shaped kneelers. It has two storeys, five bays, and a rear stair turret. On the front is a two-storey gabled porch containing a basket-arched doorway with a moulded chamfered surround, a dated and initialled lintel, and a hood mould, above which is an inscribed and dated panel. On the front are fire windows and a single-light window, and the other windows are mullioned or mullioned and transomed with hood moulds.

Kisdon

Kisdon, also called Kisdon Hill, is a fell situated in upper Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England.