Sheffield Pike (possibly meaning "the peak above the sheep fold") is a fell in the English Lake District, a prominent intermediate top on one of the eastern ridges of Stybarrow Dodd.
The south-east shoulder, below Heron Pike, drops to a grassy col and then rises to Glenridding Dodd, the final top on the ridge before Ullswater.
[1] Broadly oval in plan, Sheffield Pike separates the Glencoyne and Glenridding valleys, rising high above both.
[3] East of the summit is a second top named Heron Pike (612 metres / 2,008 ft[2]), a rock turret backed by a couple of tiny tarns.
[1] The undulating summit plateau of Sheffield Pike has marshy ground and small tarns in places between rocky outcrops, with rough grass and heather.
[4] The summit overlooks Glencoyne, but being set back from both the southern and eastern sides of the fell better views may be had from other places.
These rocks are part of a thick succession of andesite sheets which now outcrop in a wide band around the western and northern sides of the Lake District.
[7] These sheets were formed by successive eruptions of mobile andesitic lava from shallow-sided volcanoes[6] Between the individual lava flows may be beds of volcaniclastic sandstone, sedimentary deposits formed from the erosion of the volcanic rocks, and the map shows a small deposit of this near the summit of Sheffield Pike.
[8] Considerable evidence of mining remains with extensive spoil heaps on the lower slopes of Sheffield Pike.
One possibility is that it reflects the influence of the Howard family at Greystoke, the Dukes of Norfolk, who also owned estates in Sheffield, though there is no direct evidence for this explanation.