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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Glenridding like this:
GLENRIDDING, a mountain-vale, traversed by a rivulet, on the NW border of Westmoreland. The rivulet descends from Helvellyn; draws two head-streams from Red Tarn and Keppel-Cove Tarn; and runs 3½ miles eastward to Ulles water, about a mile NNW of Patter-dale Inn. The vale is overhung, on the S by Catche-decam, on the N, by Bleaberry-Fell and Stybarrow-Crag; and has, in a recess on its N side, the Greenside lead mines. Glenridding House, at its mouth, is the seat of the Rev. N. Askew.
Glenridding is now part of WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Glenridding itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Glenridding, in Westmorland and Furness and Westmorland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24724
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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