Rest Dodd

About Rest Dodd

Rest Dodd reaches 696 metres in the quieter far eastern part of the Lake District. Many walkers pass it by on the well-used path between Ullswater and Haweswater, bound either for High Street or working through the Coast to Coast Walk.

Wainwright thought little of it, though he singled out the east flank, which drops away in fans of coloured scree. It is commonly taken in alongside neighbouring Wainwright fells such as The Nab, Brock Crags and Angletarn Pikes.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Rest 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 54.515, -2.878. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is grass mound. 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

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NY434132 · 587 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

One waymarked long-distance route runs 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Rest Dodd is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Street (829 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 587 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