Stybarrow Dodd

About Stybarrow Dodd

Stybarrow Dodd — a name read as the hill of the steep path — rises immediately north of Sticks Pass on the main Helvellyn ridge in the Eastern Fells, between Thirlmere and Ullswater.

Its top is a rounded grassy dome, closely resembling those of Watson's Dodd and Great Dodd to the north. The three are sometimes grouped as the Three Dodds, and all are capped by the same sheet of volcanic rock.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Stybarrow 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 54.561, -3.017. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground 15m SE of cairn. 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

11-Nov-18

Drop measured from

NY 3406 1933 · 774.8 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

Stybarrow 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, 775 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