⛰️ Glenridding Dodd

442 m · Wainwright — Eastern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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442 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Glenridding Dodd at 442m (1,450ft) is a small grassy summit above the Glenridding valley, its top giving good views of Ullswater and across to Sheffield Pike. Wainwright included it as the lowest of the Eastern Fells, noting its pleasant situation above the busy tourist village below. The ascent from Glenridding is short and easy. A good starting fell for beginners, or a gentle evening walk from the Ullswater hotels, with Glenridding and the lake visible throughout the ascent.

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.

0.7 km WNWHeron Pike (Glenridding)612 m · Eastern
1.9 km NBrown Hills551 m · Eastern
2.2 km NSwineside Knott553 m · Eastern
2.3 km ENEBirk Fell (Bleaberry Knott - Birk Fell)512 m · Far Eastern
2.4 km EThe Knight552 m · Eastern
2.7 km NWBirkett Fell725 m · Eastern
2.9 km NCommon Fell552 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Glenridding Dodd (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Glenridding (paid) — 0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Main Helvellyn-from-the-east base: Striding Edge, Catstye Cam, Birkhouse Moor; also Sheffield Pike, Glenridding Dodd.
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Patterdale (paid) — 2.6 km from summit (straight line)
For Place Fell, St Sunday Crag, the Grisedale fells.
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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 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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