Great Close Wood

Great Close Wood is a forest in Patterdale, Westmorland and Furness, England. Great Close Wood is situated nearby to the locality Stybarrow Pass, as well as near High Glenridding.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Place Fell and Glenridding Dodd.

Place Fell

Peak

Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Place Fell is a mountain 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.

Glenridding Dodd

Peak

Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glenridding Dodd is a small fell in the English Lake District, 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 Ullswater.

Sheffield Pike

Peak

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sheffield Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, a prominent intermediate top on one of the eastern ridges of Stybarrow Dodd. It separates and stands high above the Glencoyne and Glenridding valleys, on the eastern side of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells and it looks down onto Ullswater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenridding and Patterdale.

Glenridding

Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Patterdale

Village

Photo: Ericoides, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Patterdale is a small village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is in the eastern part of the Lake District, and the name is also used for the long valley in which the village sits, also called the Ullswater Valley.

Martindale

Hamlet

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Martindale is a valley, village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, England, situated within the Lake District National Park between the lakes of Ullswater and Haweswater.

Great Close Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Patterdale, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.548° or 54° 32′ 53″ north

Longitude

-2.9518° or 2° 57′ 6″ west

Open location code

9C6VG2XX+57

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5375708811

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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