Gillside Plantation

Gillside Plantation is a forest in Patterdale, Westmorland and Furness, England. Gillside Plantation is situated nearby to the locality Moor Side, as well as near Blea Cove.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Helvellyn and Glenridding Dodd.

Helvellyn

Peak

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Helvellyn is a mountain in the English Lake District, the highest point of the Helvellyn range, a north–south line of mountains to the north of Ambleside, between the lakes of Thirlmere and Ullswater.

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.

Birkhouse Moor

Peak

Photo: Freddyj66, Public domain.

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

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.

Legburthwaite

Village

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Legburthwaite is a village in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria. It is located on the A591 road and the B5322 road. Legburthwaite has a disused place of worship and formerly, a youth hostel. It is just north of Thirlmere.

Gillside Plantation

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

54.5465° or 54° 32′ 48″ north

Longitude

-2.9788° or 2° 58′ 44″ west

Open location code

9C6VG2WC+JF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 139389422

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

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