Little Dodd (St John's Common)
Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.
Little Dodd (St John's Common) at 785m (2,575ft) is a Birkett top on the Dodds ridge, 0.5 km west-south-west of Great Dodd, with Watson's Dodd 0.9 km to the south and Calfhow Pike 1.0 km to the north-west.
Summit conditions on Little Dodd (St John's Common)
On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 10° to 4°C, gusts to 62 mph, 19.5 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 (St John's Common)
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:
- Birketts North of Thirlmere — starts 2.1 km away
- Three Dodds and Calfhow Pike — starts 2.1 km away
- Brown Crag and Raise — starts 2.1 km away
Conditions and 7-day summit forecast
Modelled for the 785 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 (St John's Common)
Parking
2 more places to park near Little Dodd (St John's Common)
Positions are approximate.
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 555 stops at Stanah Dam road end (near), a 280 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. As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Kendal (555): Tuesday to Friday 21:35 to Ambleside, 20:35 to Windermere, 17:42 to Kendal; Saturday 21:35 to Ambleside, 20:35 to Windermere, 18:12 to Kendal; Sunday 19:42 to Windermere, 18:12 to Kendal. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 24 September 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 (St John's Common)
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 (St John's Common)
These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.
On the hill: terrain and water on Little Dodd (St John's Common)
Terrain & access
A near-path top (about 785 m): a mapped path comes within about 74 m of the summit. We have not checked a way from it to the top: the figures here are measured along a straight line on a terrain model, not a route. That line climbs about 1 m. The summit is on CRoW open access land.
Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH v18.4 (CC BY 4.0); Copernicus GLO-30. CRoW access layer: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.
About Little Dodd (St John's Common)
My Strava hikes over Little Dodd (St John's Common)
1 logged hike pass over this summit:
- Crappy Weather Up There But a Nice Leisurely Jaunt Up 6 Wainwrights (opens in new tab) — 22.1 km · 1105 m ascent · 5h 03m moving · 20 August 2023
Data from Strava.
Classifications & hill data
Is Little Dodd (St John's Common) a Wainwright?
Little Dodd (St John's Common) is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett 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 →