Glenridding

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.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Cumbria, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Glenridding, Cumbria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Glenridding Dodd and Place Fell.

Peak
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small fell in the , at the end of a ridge descending from the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It stands above the village of Glenridding and on the western shore of .

Peak
Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a mountain in the . It stands at the corner of the upper and middle reaches of , with steep western flanks overlooking the villages of Glenridding and .

Church
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Patterdale and Hartsop.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in the district of , England. It is in the eastern part of the , and the name is also used for the long valley in which the village sits, also called the Valley.

Hamlet
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is a small village in the English . It lies in the valley, near , and . It consists of 17th-century grey stone cottages, like so many of its neighbours. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Glenridding.

Glenridding

Latitude
54.5443° or 54° 32′ 40″ north
Longitude
-2.9499° or 2° 56′ 60″ west
Elevation
610 feet (186 metres)
Open location code
9C6VG3V2+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29465251
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2648443
Wiki­data ID
Q5569282
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Welsh—“Glenridding” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “格伦莱丁”
  • Dutch: “Glenridding”
  • French: “Glenridding”
  • Irish: “Glenridding”
  • Polish: “Glenridding”
  • Welsh: “Glenridding”

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