The upper parts of Selside Pike are characterised by smooth grassy slopes and the top of the fell has a dome-like appearance from most angles.

Hobgrumble Gill falls down this face in a deep gully, separating Selside Pike from the north east ridge of High Howes.

The ridge south westward to High Howes is grassy and broad, crossing a wet depression at Captain Whelter Bog.

North eastwards from Selside Pike the ridge narrows, dropping over High Blake Dodd to the Mardale Corpse Road.

The last such journey was made by John Holme of Brackenhow on 17 June 1736, by which time the right of burial had been granted to the tiny Holy Trinity church in Mardale Green.

When, by 1936, the plans to raise Haweswater and submerge Mardale Green were finalised, the 100 or so burials made at Holy Trinity were disinterred and reburied at Shap.