Grisedale Beck, which drains Baugh Fell, flows down the dale eastwards, and on reaching the valley floor at Garsdale, forms the River Clough before turning westwards towards the Irish Sea.

[9] In its lower reaches before it flows under the A684 road, Grisedale beck cuts through an incised valley created by melting glacial waters.

[14] By the early 1970s, only one farmer remained living and working in the valley, and he was featured in a Yorkshire Television documentary entitled The Dale that Died.

[15] The director of the documentary, Barry Cockcroft, said that Grisedale was "the most romantic dale in all of Yorkshire...complete in its unspoilt beauty, serenity and vivid history.

Dunham and Speight assert that this refers to wild boars,[5] but others state young pigs, perhaps in a farmed sense.

A document from the time of the Dissolution states that Jervaulx owned lands at Clough in Sedberglic, Grisendene, Grisedale, Sudeberge, and Ulnedale.

[37] The long-distance footpath Pennine Journey runs across Grisedale,[38] and access can also be found from the North Yorkshire side of the dale at Lunds, via a small bridge over the Settle Carlisle Railway.

[41][42] Grisedale Pike is 2,030 feet (620 m) high, and has several cairns on its flank, which provide a viewpoint across to Upper Wensleydale.

[38][13] Whilst historically, cairns such as those on Grisedale Pike were markers for shepherds, they are near to the point where sandstone was quarried on Baugh Fell from 1690 to provide roofing materials for the farmhouses in the dale.

[45] Fox's own journal records that ..[I] came to major Bousfield's in Garsdale, where he and several more received me and some were convinced and still stand to this day.

This place was located on the Clough Valley floor between the two settlements, but by 1706, the inhabitants of Grisedale had built their own house in the dale (at SD775934).