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Greenside Cumbria Map

Traditional county: Cumbria · Unitary authority: Westmorland and Furness · Region: North West

Explore Greenside, Cumbria with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Greenside map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.

This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of Greenside, Cumbria

How to Use This Greenside, Cumbria Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Greenside, Cumbria, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of Cumbria or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Greenside and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Greenside.

Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.

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PlaceGreenside
Traditional CountyCumbria
Unitary AuthorityWestmorland and Furness
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude54.429701
Longitude-2.450591
Place TypeHamlet

About Greenside

Greenside emerges from the rugged Cumbrian terrain as a collection of stone dwellings that seem to catch the first pale light of dawn before the rest of the valley wakes. It lies 5.1 miles south-west of Kirkby Stephen (from Kirkby Stephen: bearing 233°T, OS grid NY 708 039), and is situated west of Ravenstonedale village. The landscape here is defined by the expansive, open horizon of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, where the wind carries the scent of damp peat and wild heather. Greenside watches over the passage of time as Greenside Beck flows quietly just to the south, its waters carving a silver path through the limestone bedrock. To the north-west, the slopes of Will Hill rise with a quiet, imposing dignity, anchoring the horizon against the shifting moods of the northern sky. The stillness of the moor is broken only by the thin, melodic call of curlews navigating the air above the nearby high ground. Those who walk the paths around Greenside find a land where the earth remains unhurried, revealing its ancient geological bones through the exposed strata of the surrounding hills. This corner of the world holds a spare, honest beauty, defined by the stark clarity of the light and the enduring resilience of the stone walls that partition the fells.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Yorkshire Dales National Park (National Park) — locality lies within · 22k acres
  • Greenside Beck (River) — 0.2 mi, 179° S
  • Will Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 0.3 mi, 325° NW
  • Greenside Tarn (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.4 mi, 122° ESE
  • Poskey Bottom (Valley) — 0.5 mi, 213° SSW
  • Pinskey Gill Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 0.6 mi, 276° W
  • Denamire Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 0.6 mi, 311° NW
  • Denamire Sike (River) — 0.6 mi, 323° NW
  • Hag Mire (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.9 mi, 023° NNE
  • Foundations N Of St Oswald'S Church (Scheduled Monument) — 0.9 mi, 075° ENE
  • Medieval Settlement And Chapel Site N Of Newbiggin-On-Lune (Scheduled Monument) — 0.9 mi, 006° N
  • Scandal Beck And Stone Gill Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.0 mi, 057° ENE · 12 ha
  • Dykes And Mounds On Either Side Of Scandal Beck (Scheduled Monument) — 1.0 mi, 054° NE · 10 ha
  • Ewefell Mire (Wetland) — 1.8 mi, 341° NNW
  • Back Dub (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.9 mi, 320° NW
  • Cook Mire (Wetland) — 2.7 mi, 105° ESE
  • Lammerside Castle (Historic Ruins) — 4.0 mi, 082° E
  • Cautley Spout (Waterfall) — 4.3 mi, 202° SSW
  • Raisbeck Pinfold (Public Artwork) — 4.3 mi, 298° WNW
  • Jubilee Park (Park) — 4.4 mi, 060° ENE
  • Stainmore Railway Company (Museum) — 4.4 mi, 059° ENE
  • The Green (Park) — 4.5 mi, 066° ENE
  • Devil's Grinding Mill (Viewpoint) — 4.6 mi, 061° ENE
  • Pendragon Castle (Castle) — 4.6 mi, 100° E
  • The Spout (Waterfall) — 4.7 mi, 234° SW
  • Farfield Mill (Attraction) — 7.7 mi, 194° SSW
  • King Charles II Monument (Monument) — 7.8 mi, 303° WNW
  • Brough Castle (Castle) — 8.1 mi, 039° NE
  • Hoff Lunn (Forest / Woodland) — 8.3 mi, 338° NNW
  • Millthrop Mill (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 200° SSW

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About This Greenside Map Page

Explore Greenside, Cumbria, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 54.429701, -2.450591. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.

Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.

Page builtOctober 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.