⛰️ Dodd (Buttermere)

641 m · Birkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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641 mBirkett — North Western (not a Wainwright summit)+4 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Starling Dodd at 633m (2,077ft) is a broad, grassy summit above Ennerdale between Red Pike and Great Borne, giving fine views of Ennerdale Water and the remote Ennerdale valley. Wainwright described it as an unfrequented summit with good views. The ascent from Ennerdale or from Great Borne via the ridge is across open fell. Most naturally combined with Great Borne and Red Pike for a circuit of the northern Buttermere-Ennerdale fells.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits — detour to them on this walk and they are pure profit. Distances are straight-line; allow extra for terrain.

1.1 km SEHigh Stile (Grey Crag - High Stile)806 m · Western
1.5 km WLittle Dodd (Ennerdale)590 m · Western
2.5 km NWScale Knott338 m · Western
2.6 km ENEHigh Snockrigg526 m · North Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Dodd (Buttermere) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 1.7 km from summit (straight line)
For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.
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Gatesgarth Farm, Buttermere (paid) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)
Farm car park at the foot of Haystacks, Fleetwith Pike and the High Stile ridge.
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Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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