page_title: Top o'Selside
section_title: Tarn
hierarchical_section_title: Top o'Selside / Tarn
caption_attribution_description: English: View from Great Hill, Selside.View from the great Hill, looking northwards up Coniston Water with the 'Old Man of Coniston' visible on the left. This is a great walk to take in the south of the lakes. You meet virtually no one and after a stiff climb, the views are superb. A good circular route can be started from the small car park in the woods at Crabs Haw (SD297908). We walked down the road from there to High Nibthwaite and then took the path leading up the side of High Wood. Once at the top, you walk round a farm and then onto open moorland heading towards Top o' Selside from where you can pick up a green lane back down to the car park. Wear decent footwear though, it gets boggy in places, even in the summer.
context_page_description: Top o'Selside is a hill in the Lake District in Cumbria, England. At 335 metres, it is the highest point of the group of hills situated between Coniston Water and Windermere. This group also includes the Wainwright of Black Fell and the summits of Black Brows and Rusland Heights. Top o'Selside lies not in the centre of this region, but in the south-western corner, just outside the forestry plantations of Grizedale Forest and only two-thirds of a mile from the eastern shore of Coniston Water. This large separation from any higher ground gives it enough relative height to make it a Marilyn.
context_section_description: There is a small sheet of water to the south of the summit, Arnsbarrow Tarn (pictured above). According to Heaton Cooper, the tarn is held in the moraines left by two glaciers moving down each valley. He also says the area was populated by lawless brigands in the 14th century, who were led by Adam de Beaumont. They held the neighbourhood in terror for seventeen years from 1346 to 1363, when they were finally caught. Arnesbarrow is a Norse name meaning burial place or stronghold of Arne.
caption: The view down Coniston Water from just north of the summit
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