Garrigill

Garrigill, Cumbria is a small village in the North Pennine region of the UK, situated on the banks and close to the source of the River South Tyne.Historically part of Cumberland, today it is within the Garrigill ward of the civil parish of Alston Moor within Westmorland and Furness.At its peak Garrigill was home to 1,000 people, mainly employed in the lead mining industry; now its population numbers less than 200.For many years there has been one pub in the village, the 'George & Dragon', but this was closed from September 2009 to December 2010 and again from November 2013 to 3 April 2015.He published A Treatise on a Section of the Strata from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Mountain of Cross Fell in Cumberland.
View of row of houses including the Post Office. The boarded-up pub 'The George and Dragon' on the left.
Ashgill Force in flood
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