Silk Wood

Silk Wood is a forest in Melbecks, Richmondshire District, England. Silk Wood is situated nearby to the locality Black Dub, as well as near Gunnerside Bottoms.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gunnerside Methodist Church and Holy Trinity Church, Melbecks.

Gunnerside Methodist Church

Church

Gunnerside Methodist Church is a historic building in Gunnerside, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The first Wesleyan Methodist Church in Gunnerside was built in 1789.

Holy Trinity Church, Melbecks

Church

Photo: Maigheach-gheal, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holy Trinity Church is the parish church of Melbecks, an area of Swaledale in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the mid 19th century, the Melbecks area fell within the parish of the Church of St Andrew, Grinton.

King’s Head, Gunnerside

Pub

Photo: Chris Holifield, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The King's Head is a pub in Gunnerside, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The pub was built in 1760. It was grade II listed in 1986. It was restored and reroofed in 2014, then in 2019, it was acquired by the local community.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keld and Muker.

Keld

Photo: Kreuzschnabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Keld is a tiny village in North Yorkshire, near the head of the valley of the River Swale in the Yorkshire Dales. The river cascades down from the Pennines in a series of waterfalls, and several long-distance hiking trails pass through.

Muker

Hamlet

Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.