Dodd Fell Hill

About Dodd Fell Hill

Dodd Fell Hill takes its name from Middle English dodde and Old Norse fjall, together meaning something like the hill with the rounded top, which describes it well. The flat summit is marked by a concrete trig point.

A lower top, Ten End, lies 1.6 km to the north at 580 m. Water leaving the hill to the north-east forms Duerley Beck, which runs down Sleddale to join the River Ure; water going north drains through Snaizeholme, a side dale of Widdale. The Pennine Way follows the high ridge between the summit and Snaizeholme.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Dodd Fell Hill (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 54.257, -2.246. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is ground 8m SE of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

21-Jul-24

Drop measured from

SD 7981 8428 · 435.6 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Long-distance paths past this hill

2 waymarked long-distance routes run within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

The Dodd Fell Hill group

4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Dodd Fell Hill as the independent hill at its head.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks