Selside Pike is a smooth, grassy dome above the head of Swindale, and its highest point is a slight rise of embedded rocks just south of a stone windshelter. A ridge to the north-east drops to the old Mardale corpse road, used to carry the valley's dead to the nearest churchyard until 1736. Lakeland views are cut short, but the outlook east over Haweswater and Shap to the Pennines is wide open.
New to the Wainwrights?Read our guide: What Are The Wainwrights?Grassy rise with embedded rocks 40 m SSW of windshelter
Smooth grassy upper slopes, tongues of scree on the west and crags falling east into Swindale.
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Also on this route: Branstree
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