From the top of Lownathwaite Mea there is a picturesque minescape down to some of the Lownathwaite disused lead mines, and along the Blakethwaite Valley towards the Blakethwaite mines. Prominent in the middle distance is Eweleap Scar on the west bank of Blakethwaite Moss. Mea is the name given to describe boggy or wet ground, a good description for Lownathwaite Mea.

The Blind Gill issues from Blind Gill Head on Gunnerside Moor. It is subsumed by the Gunnerside Gill besides the Dressing Floors of Blakethwaite Mine near the footbridge.

Where Blind Gill converges with Blakethwaite Gill the Gill's name changes to Gunnerside Gill. This is by the footbridge at the foot of Lownathwaite Mea and High Gorton.

Friarfold Hush and Bunton Hush each occupy, side by side, part of the east riverbank of Gunnerside Gill, at the south west foot of Friarfold Moor. Hushes were first used by the Romans in the first century, and later brought across to England. It is a form of hydraulic open cast vein mining. Streams are dammed near the suspected veins and the water allowed to escape dramatically by releasing a sluice gate. This scours the topsoil away, revealing the bedrock and veins of ore.

Swina Scar is the steep bank of exposed yoredale limestone on the far bend in the east riverbank of Gunnerside Gill. The opposing riverbank also steepens and the valley closes in to form a ravine.

Opposite Swina Bank Scar, stretching to the tipped spoil of the disused Dolly Lead Level, the steep outcroppings of limestone fall vertically to Gunnerside Gill. This image can be contrasted with the prior image which shows Swina Bank Scar on the opposing valley side.

From Winterings Scar there is a pleasant outlook across the valley to Silver Hill and Black Hill beyond. Converging with the Gunnerside Gill at Botcher Gill Nook, is the Botcher Gill. The Nook is the valley's angular entrance.

Over the top of Birkbeck Wood the rich pastures around Bents and Lodge Green are adequately contrasted with the former mining area at the top of Brownsey Moor.

Knot Top is the 450m trigonic ridge top of the south east face of Gunnerside Pasture. Jingle Pot Edge adjoins Knot Top, leading north at the top of the western river bank of Gunnerside Gill.

As Gunnerside Beck nears the village it flows through Birkbeck Wood. The Wood sprawls southwards along both sides of the riverbank, on the west bank all the way along the foot of Jingle Pot Edge to Gunnerside, and on the east side to a point opposite Potting.

A dense tapestry of bluebells are present in spring as you enter Birkbeck Wood. The path carries you up from the Beck to the edge of the wood, until leaving it by a wooden gate.

Where bluebells are absent the earth is populated by wild garlic, contrasting nicely with the sky blue of the Gill.

An attractve woody lane leads around Gunnersgill Hall, sweeping around the east of the Gill to enter the village at the side of Mary Shaw's Cafe.

Gunnerside Gill flows through the centre of the Village, to converge with the River Swale in 400 yards, at Gunnerside New Bridge.

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