Glenridding Dodd

About Glenridding Dodd

The name says what it is: the rounded hill above Glenridding. This small fell in the Lake District's Eastern Fells terminates a ridge descending from the Helvellyn range, standing over the village of Glenridding and the western shore of Ullswater.

Modest height notwithstanding, the top is a good vantage point for the length of Ullswater and for the fells gathered around the valleys above Patterdale.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Glenridding Dodd (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 54.549, -2.959. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn on rocky outcrop. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

25-Jan-24

Drop measured from

NY378175 · 398 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Glenridding Dodd is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Helvellyn (950 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 398 m.

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