Greenside in 2009. The buildings seen here are the lower part of the mine complex which spreads up the hillside.Glenridding across Ullswater, with one of the steamers leaving the pier
Glenridding is a village at the southern end of Ullswater, in the English Lake District. The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England's third-highest mountain, Helvellyn, and many other challenging peaks from there.
Without the mine, the houses and economy of Glenridding and the surrounding area would not have existed. Glenridding is home to the Ullswater 'Steamers', a...
Glenridding House is a Regency era building in Glenridding on Ullswater, constructed between 1807 and 1814. It was a private summer villa until about 1860...
that can be reached from the valley include Place Fell, High Street, Glenridding Dodd, most of the peaks in the Helvellyn range, Fairfield and St Sunday...
that is "narrower than a strath". Examples in Northern England, such as Glenridding, Westmorland, or Glendue, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland, are thought...
Glenridding Dodd (the rounded hill above Glenridding) is a small fell in the English Lake District, at the end of a ridge descending from the Helvellyn...
shoreline of Ullswater may be the remains of a Viking fortified settlement. Glenridding, is situated at the southern end of the lake, Pooley Bridge is at the...
Cove and Red Tarn unite below Catstye Cam to form Glenridding Beck, which flows through Glenridding village to the lake, while Nethermost Cove drains...
Pike separates the Glencoyne and Glenridding valleys, rising high above both. Each flank is steep, the Glenridding Screes on the south side particularly...
water. The Ullswater 'Steamers' regularly stop there on their way from Glenridding at the southern end of Ullswater to Pooley Bridge at the northern end...
economic links with the area. Other villages are Coniston, Threlkeld, Glenridding, Pooley Bridge, Broughton-in-Furness, Grasmere, Newby Bridge, Staveley...
eight or nine feet in order to supply power to the Greenside Mine at Glenridding. Today the tarn is a popular rest stop for hikers and nature goers. It...
above Glenridding village. Water power for working machinery in the mine and the mills was drawn from the stream below Green Side, and from Glenridding Beck...
which ferries (known as the Ullswater 'Steamers') provide connections to Glenridding and Howtown. Pooley Bridge was formerly known as Pooley or Pool How meaning...
better protection of wild land. In 2017, it took on a lease to manage Glenridding Common in the English Lake District. The John Muir Trust was founded...
Fell, 481 m (1,578 ft) [Actually #32 on map] Nab Scar, 450 m (1,476 ft) Glenridding Dodd, 442 m (1,450 ft) Arnison Crag, 433 m (1,421 ft) The Far Eastern...
the water. Each year, on Easter Monday, a duck race is organised in Glenridding by the local mountain rescue team to raise funds. Another is the Manchester...
of Ullswater, with steep western flanks overlooking the villages of Glenridding and Patterdale. A ten-mile (16 km) horseshoe of high ground surrounds...
was carried out to provide additional water to the Greenside Mine in Glenridding, the water race still visible as it crosses the slope of Birkhouse Moor...
heads for Ambleside, before crossing Kirkstone Pass. It descends through Glenridding, on the shore of Ullswater, before heading for Keswick. It then crosses...
Force, making the waterfall accessible by foot passenger ferry from Glenridding. A footpath runs from Aira Force as far as Glencoyne Bay, but only a...
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