Glenridding Dodd

About Glenridding Dodd

Standing as a sturdy, bracken-clad sentinel above Glenridding village, this miniature Wainwright offers an exceptional effort-to-reward ratio. Often bypassed for the higher Helvellyn fells, its rocky summit provides a stunning, unobstructed window down the length of Ullswater towards Hallin Fell and the steep-sided flanks of Place Fell.

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• •The name 'Dodd' is a Cumbrian dialect term for a blunt or rounded hill, usually one that stands as an offshoot of a larger fell; 'Glenridding' likely derives from the Old English word 'ridding', meaning a clearing.
• •Alfred Wainwright justified its inclusion as a separate fell in his Pictorial Guides by arguing that its magnificent, bird’s-eye view of Ullswater and the Patterdale valley gave it a distinct character despite it being a shoulder of Stybarrow Dodd.
• •The ascent through the larch trees of The Rake is a short, sharp pull that reveals the industrial heritage of the area, passing near the old Greenside lead mine which was once one of the most productive in the country.
• •From the summit, the view west is dominated by the near-perfect pyramid of Catstycam, while looking east provides a clear sightline over the 'S' bend of Ullswater towards the far eastern fells of the High Street range.
• •It remains one of the few summits where you can spend more time studying the pub menu in the village below through binoculars than you actually spent walking up to the top.