Visit Glenridding Places

Welcome to Visit Glenridding Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Glenridding

  

Glenridding Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Glenridding

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Glenridding etymology

Glenridding is generally agreed to be Cumbric in origin. First recorded as Glenredyn in around 1290, the name’s present form is thought to have been influenced by the Middle English element ridding, ‘clearing’

Glenridding geography / climate

Glenridding is in the civil parish of Patterdale. On 6 December 2015, Storm Desmond caused extensive flooding to the village. The community set up a Flood Action Group who continue to work on recovery and resilience measures.

You can visit Glenridding places with Walkfo Glenridding to hear history at Glenridding’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Glenridding has 17 places to visit in our interactive Glenridding map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Glenridding, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Glenridding places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Glenridding & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 17 audio facts unique to Glenridding places in an interactive Glenridding map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Glenridding Places Map
17 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Glenridding historic spots	Glenridding tourist destinations	Glenridding plaques	Glenridding geographic features
Walkfo Glenridding tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Glenridding

  

Best Glenridding places to visit

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Glenridding has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Glenridding’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Glenridding’s information audio spots:

Glenridding House Glenridding House was constructed between 1807 and 1814. It was a private summer villa until about 1860 and then became a guest house. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building.

Sheffield Pike Sheffield Pike (possibly meaning “the peak above the sheep fold”) is a prominent intermediate top on one of the eastern ridges of Stybarrow Dodd. It separates and stands high above the Glencoyne and Glenridding valleys.

Place Fell Place Fell is a hill in the English Lake District. It stands at the corner of the upper and middle reaches of Ullswater, with steep western flanks overlooking the villages of Glenridding and Patterdale.

Hart Side Hart Side (the hill side frequented by harts) is a subsidiary top on one of the east ridges of Stybarrow Dodd, which is a mountain (or fell) in the English Lake District. With a height of 2,480 feet (756 m) Hart Side rises above the col separating it from Green Side by 75 feet (23 m)

Birkhouse Moor Birkhouse Moor is a fell in the English Lake District, an outlier of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It was treated as a separate fell by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.

Birks (Lake District) Birks is a fell in the English Lake District situated two kilometres south west of the village of Patterdale in the Eastern Fells. The fell’s summit sits on a shoulder of the north east ridge of the higher and better known fell of St Sunday Crag.

St Sunday Crag St Sunday Crag is part of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells. It is a prominent feature in the Patterdale skyline, with a rounded shape.

Catstye Cam Catstye Cam is a fell in the English Lake District. It is an outlier of Helvellyn in the Eastern Fells.

Raise (Lake District) Raise is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands on the main spine of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It is located between Thirlmere and Ullswater.

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