Little Dodd (Ennerdale)
Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.
Little Dodd (Ennerdale) (590 m / 1,936 ft) is a Birkett (one of the 541 tops in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells), in the Western Fells. The name combines little (Old English lytel, little or smaller), and dodd (dialect dodd, a rounded, bare hill).
Summit conditions on Little Dodd (Ennerdale)
On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 12° to 6°C, gusts to 62 mph, 4.2 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.
The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →
Parking & buses
Routes near Little Dodd (Ennerdale)
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:
- Round Ennerdale Water from Bowness Knott — starts 4.0 km away
- Around Loweswater — starts 5.7 km away
- Mellbreak and Crummock Water — starts 5.7 km away
Conditions and 7-day summit forecast
Modelled for the 590 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
Full 7-day forecast
Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)
Parking & buses for Little Dodd (Ennerdale)
Parking
2 more places to park near Little Dodd (Ennerdale)
Positions are approximate.
Of the pay-and-display machine tickets sold at Buttermere from 17 August 2024 to 31 March 2026, 15% were bought before 10am (our count of FOI/2026.500 ticket data). Contains public sector information provided by the Lake District National Park Authority and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.
Buses
The 77 and 77A stop at Buttermere, outside Court Hotel, a 210 m walk from the nearest parking for this fell. We haven’t mapped a route up it, so we can’t tell you the walk from there to the start. The 77A runs until 1 November 2026, the last day of its season. Seasonal: the 77 does not run all year. 1 November 2026 is its last day. It returns on 22 March 2027. Confirmed with the operator: its last day on 29 August 2026, its return on 16 October 2026. Last bus: Monday to Friday 19:23 towards Cockermouth (77A) and 18:20 towards Keswick (77); Saturday 19:23 towards Cockermouth (77A) and 18:20 towards Keswick (77); Sunday 18:20 towards Keswick (77). Checked against the operator’s timetable, 12 September 2026; that timetable runs to 1 November 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat
Hazards on Little Dodd (Ennerdale)
We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.
If you need Mountain Rescue
Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.
Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.
Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.
If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.
From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).
Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.
Birketts within 3 km of Little Dodd (Ennerdale)
These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.
About Little Dodd (Ennerdale)
Classifications & hill data
Is Little Dodd (Ennerdale) a Wainwright?
Little Dodd (Ennerdale) is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Selected lists
This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.
Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →