Muker
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Muker
- UK place.static_image_name
- MukerVillageLookingWest(DennisTurner)Apr2004.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Muker Village looking west. The beck in the foreground is the Straw Beck, a tributary of the River Swale which it joins a short distance away to the north-east.
- UK place.population
- 249
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Muker
- UK place.unitary_england
- North Yorkshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- North Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Richmond and Northallerton
- UK place.post_town
- RICHMOND
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- North Yorkshire
- Population
- +249
- Image
- MukerVillageLookingWest(DennisTurner)Apr2004.jpg
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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.