England

The Dodd

One classification here — Simm — belongs to a list OpenFell holds only part of, so it has no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
614 m · 2,014 ft
Grid reference
NY 79161 45758
Coordinates
54.80627, -2.32573
County / area
Northumberland
OS Landranger
86 87
OS Explorer
OL31W
Summit feature
no feature: heather
Key col
NY791450 (580 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Needs the landowner's permission — the Dartmoor commons are the only exception in England.

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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Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.806, -2.326. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

very featureless area; cairn 130m to NNE (NY 79230 45860) c.1m lower.

The recorded summit point is no feature: heather. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level/Leica NA320
Record revised
08-May-25
Drop measured from
NY791450 · 580 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.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Isaac's Tea Trail 61 km 0.6 km

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

Which hill this one belongs to

The Dodd is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Burnhope Seat (748 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 580 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

PeakHeightDistance
Killhope Law 673 m 2.9 km
Flinty Fell 614.6 m 4.3 km
Dead Stones 710 m 5.8 km
Middlehope Moor 611.9 m 7.5 km
Burnhope Seat 747.8 m 8.2 km
Burnhope Seat - Trig Point 746.5 m 8.2 km