⛰️ Little Dodd (St John's Common)

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

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785 mBirkett — Eastern (not a Wainwright summit)+9 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Little Dodd at 476m (1,562ft) is a small summit on the ridge above Glenridding, a Birkett fell giving pleasant views of the Glenridding valley and across to Sheffield Pike. The ascent from Glenridding is short. Part of the range of lower fells above Ullswater east of Glenridding. Good views of Ullswater on a clear day.

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.

1.0 km NWCalfhow Pike660 m · Eastern
1.3 km ENERanderside729 m · Eastern
1.7 km WSWCastle Rock339 m · Eastern
2.1 km WWren Crag311 m · Eastern
2.3 km SEGreen Side (White Stones - Green Side)794 m · Eastern
2.7 km NNWThrelkeld Knotts514 m · Eastern
2.8 km ESEBirkett Fell725 m · Eastern
2.9 km SWGreat How (Thirlmere)333 m · Eastern
2.9 km SSWBrown Crag610 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Little Dodd (St John's Common) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
St John's in the Vale — Sticks Pass side, High Rigg, Raven Crag.
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Swirls, Thirlmere (paid) — 3.8 km from summit (straight line)
The standard west-side route up Helvellyn via Browncove Crags.
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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 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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