Wainwright — Far Eastern FellsAlso a Birkett

Rest Dodd

Rest Dodd at 696m (2,283ft) is an isolated summit above Patterdale, separated from the main High Street range by the hollow of Boardale Hause.

696 m

Height

~3–4 h

Typical time

Bonus Birketts

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Written and walked by Lee McCoy

696 mWainwright — Far Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+2 bonus Birketts within 3 km Straightforward in cloud

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 696 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 11° to 8°C, gusts to 24 mph, 2.4 mm of rain forecast.

Fri 11 Sep

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11° / 8°

💨 24 mph

🌧 2.4 mm (100%)

Sat 12 Sep

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14° / 8°

💨 47 mph

🌧 19.3 mm (100%)

Sun 13 Sep

🌦️

12° / 7°

💨 18 mph

🌧 0.4 mm (62%)

Mon 14 Sep

🌧️

14° / 6°

💨 34 mph

🌧 9.7 mm (100%)

Tue 15 Sep

🌦️

13° / 7°

💨 34 mph

🌧 2.0 mm (89%)

Wed 16 Sep

🌦️

10° / 7°

💨 32 mph

🌧 1.3 mm (78%)

Thu 17 Sep

🌦️

11° / 8°

💨 36 mph

🌧 1.4 mm (92%)

Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 696 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Rest Dodd at a glance

Rest Dodd

Rest Dodd at 696m (2,283ft) is an isolated summit above Patterdale, separated from the main High Street range by the hollow of Boardale Hause. Wainwright noted its excellent views across Ullswater and the fine prospect of the Hayeswater hollow below. The ascent from Patterdale or Hartsop via Hayeswater is pleasant. Most naturally combined with The Knott and Angletarn Pikes for a circuit above Patterdale. A quiet summit on a less frequented ridge.

Field notes

The trek up from Hartsop wasn't all that challenging, mostly it's a clear path. What I do like about this fell is that the decent cairn pops out suddenly as you approach the summit and the view over The Nab is glorious. You couldn't tell from the photo I took, however. Just moments after I took it, the view north opened up for a few minutes and you could see the detail of the peat hags and the way forward. Clearly when the Old English and Norse named this fell they were spot on as this is a fabulous place to take a break. It's relatively flat, its grassy and has decent views.

Routes up Rest Dodd

Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.

Angletarn Pikes and the Martindale round

22.2 km · ~6.7 hr · Hard

A long, quiet circuit of the Far Eastern fells above Patterdale — over Rest Dodd and out to the remote peak of The Nab, then back across Brock Crags to the twin tops of Angletarn Pikes, and home over Beda Fell and Place Fell. Twenty-two kilometres and six summits in some of the emptiest country in the National Park.

Finishing of the Far Eastern Fells

22.5 km · ~6.6 hr

Rest Dodd, The Nab, Brock Crags and the Angletarn Pikes — six tops in 22.5 km with 1,279 m of climbing. Severe for both length and steepness and hard for navigation and exposure: about 6.6 hours and a full day out.

Classifications & hill data

Wainwright

Far Eastern

Birkett

Fellranger

Synge

Nuttall

HuMP

696 m

Height

2,283 ft

In feet

NY 4325 1364

Grid ref

The short answers

Is Rest Dodd a Wainwright?

Rest Dodd is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Nuttall list, the Fellranger list and the HuMP list.

Where do you park for Rest Dodd?

The nearest car park we hold is Hartsop village (free, donation), about 2.3 km from the summit in a straight line. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.

My hikes over Rest Dodd (Strava)

1 logged hike pass over this summit:

Finishing of the Far Eastern Fells (opens in new tab) — 23.1 km · 1463 m ascent · 6h 01m moving · 14 Aug 2026

Interactive route maps and photos load here for visitors with JavaScript. Data from Strava.

Parking & buses for Rest Dodd

Best parking to hike Rest Dodd

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Hartsop village (free, donation) — 2.3 km from summit (straight line)

For Hartsop Dodd, Gray Crag, High Street via Hayeswater, Brock Crags.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Cow Bridge, Hartsop (paid) (0.9 km)

Gowk Hill (layby) — 2.6 km from summit (straight line)

Nearest fells: Gowk Hill (0.8 km), The Nab (1.1 km), Brownthwaite Crag (1.2 km). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged). Fee not verified — check signage on arrival.

Directions Something changed here?

Beda Fell (layby) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)

Nearest fells: Beda Fell (Beda Head) (0.8 km), Gowk Hill (1.1 km), Brownthwaite Crag (1.2 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Grass surface (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

Cow Bridge, Hartsop (paid) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)

Paid car park by Brothers Water — Hartsop above How, Dovedale, Caudale Moor. Fees: pay and display; coins and cards; RingGo ID 37323 (LDNPA, checked Aug 2026).

Directions Something changed here?

Hartsop Dodd car park (free) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)

Nearest fells: Hartsop Dodd (0.9 km), Gale Crag (1.2 km), Brock Crags (Wainwright) (1.6 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Compacted surface (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.

Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.

Getting to Rest Dodd by bus

The 508 stops at Hartsop, in road end, 20 m from the start of Finishing of the Far Eastern Fells. The last bus is 17:44 towards Penrith (508) and 15:50 towards Keswick (509), every day. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 7 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

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 (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Hazards on Rest Dodd

Hazard & Incident Information for Rest Dodd

Hazard: Moderate

A quiet, rounded fell in the remote Martindale country, with a broad level top scarred by deep peat hags — some deeper than a person — and steep, rough flanks dropping to Bannerdale and Rampsgill. It has no real crags, but the bog, the featureless top and the sheer remoteness make it a navigation fell, especially on the awkward boggy link out to The Nab. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team covers this ground.

Deep peat hags & boggy ground: The broad top and the ridge toward The Nab are cut by deep peat hags and bog, tiring and disorientating to cross and a trap in mist. Pick your line carefully, keep a compass bearing, and don't assume the easiest-looking ground is safe or quick.
Steep, rough flanks: The sides drop steeply and roughly into Bannerdale and Rampsgill. Keep to the higher ground and don't be tempted to cut down the steep flanks, particularly in poor visibility.
Remoteness (Martindale): This is out-of-the-way country a long way from any road, little visited and with no shelter. A navigation error, bog mishap or injury becomes serious here — carry full kit and navigation, and allow plenty of time and daylight.

Who should attempt this fell: Rest Dodd is gentle in outline but a genuine navigation and bog challenge in remote country — be confident with map and compass, pick careful lines through the peat hags (the boggy ridge to The Nab especially), and keep off the steep flanks. Plan for the remoteness: carry what you need, leave a wide time margin, and turn back if cloud closes in over the featureless top.

Most common causes: Navigation errors among the peat hags and on the featureless top in cloud · Floundering or tiring badly in deep bog, especially toward The Nab · Slips on the steep, rough flanks · Difficulties magnified by remoteness and few other walkers about

Local Mountain Rescue: Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (opens in new tab) · Reviewed 14 Jun 2026

Safety: Hazard guidance compiled from published Mountain Rescue reports and well-documented accident history - editorial background, not a live feed of callouts. Always check current conditions, carry proper navigation equipment, and seek qualified instruction before heading onto the fells. In an emergency, call 999, ask for Police, then Mountain Rescue.

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Navigating Rest Dodd in cloud

Straightforward

A rough, rocky summit ringed by crags, with no single obvious way off in poor visibility. Navigation here is relatively straightforward even in cloud — but carry map and compass and know how to use them; a low score never means “safe”.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How Rest Dodd compares with all 214 — the Clag Index: navigating in cloud. A relative, deliberately cautious guide; the site can’t navigate for you.

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Hartsop village (free, donation), about 2.3 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near Rest Dodd (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.

2.3 km NERed Crag711 m · Far Eastern

2.4 km ELow Raise754 m · Far Eastern

Routes over Rest Dodd

Angletarn Pikes and the Martindale roundPlanned

22.23 km · ~1349 m ascent · loop · ~6.5–9 h · Hard

Summits: Rest DoddThe Nab Brock Crags (Wainwright)Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)Beda Fell (Beda Head)Place Fell

✎️ This is the antidote to Helvellyn on an August Saturday. The Nab is one of the least-visited Wainwrights precisely because of the deer forest, and the reward for the boggy trudge out to it is a summit almost nobody stands on. Angletarn Pikes and its tarn are the prettiest thing in the Far Eastern fells.

⬇️ Download GPX

Best season: Late spring to autumn. The ground between Rest Dodd and The Nab is notoriously boggy and the navigation is committing in cloud — save this one for a clear day with dry ground underfoot.

⚠️ Warnings: The Nab sits in the Martindale deer forest — England’s oldest deer herd. Access is by a permissive route only; keep to it, keep dogs on a lead, and do not wander. During the autumn rut the estate asks walkers to stay away entirely. Check before you go. The ground either side of The Nab is genuinely boggy — peat hags and wet channels that swallow the path. Expect wet feet and slow going, and do not judge your timings by the distance alone. A big day: over 22 km and 1,350 m of ascent, with navigation graded hard. The high ground is broad, rolling and short of landmarks — in cloud this is a compass-and-pacing exercise. Long, remote and thinly walked. You will not meet many people, which is the joy of it and also the point — carry what you need to get yourself out.

Full route guide ↗

🥾 Walked in part — Lee walked this ground in August 2026; km 0.2–1.4, km 15.9–18.0 of this line are from the map.

A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass. How to use this guide.

Finishing of the Far Eastern FellsPlanned

22.5 km · ~1279 m ascent · linear · ~6.5–9 h

Summits: Rest DoddThe Nab Brock Crags (Wainwright)Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)Beda Fell (Beda Head)Place Fell

⬇️ Download GPX

Full route guide ↗

A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on Rest Dodd

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Angletarn Pikes and the Martindale round route:

🚌 Road End (467 m)

On the Finishing of the Far Eastern Fells route:

🛖 map (9 m)🛖 map (94 m)🚌 Road End (44 m)🚌 Patterdale Hotel (E bound) (63 m)🚌 Patterdale Hotel (W bound) (93 m)🚌 Cow Bridge car park (233 m)⛺ Patterdale Youth Hostel (428 m)⛺ Patterdale Youth Hostel camp site (454 m)

The view from Rest Dodd

The 360° skyline from Rest Dodd

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

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What you can see from Rest Dodd, by direction

East: High Raise (2 km)
South-east: Rampsgill Head (1 km)
South: Thornthwaite Crag (4 km), Stony Cove Pike (4 km)
South-west: Red Screes (6 km), Dove Crag (7 km), Great Carrs (21 km), Swirl How (21 km), Great How (21 km), Grey Friar (22 km), Brim Fell (22 km), The Old Man of Coniston (22 km)
West: St Sunday Crag (6 km), Hart Crag (7 km), Fairfield (8 km), Dollywaggon Pike (9 km), Catstye Cam (9 km), Nethermost Pike (9 km), High Crag (9 km), Helvellyn (9 km), Helvellyn Lower Man (10 km), White Side (10 km), Glaramara (19 km), Green Gable (22 km), Great Gable (22 km)
North-west: Green Side (10 km), Raise (10 km), Stybarrow Dodd (10 km), Great Dodd (11 km), Blencathra (18 km), Gategill Fell Top (18 km), Knowe Crags (18 km), Atkinson Pike (18 km), Skiddaw Lesser Man (22 km), Skiddaw Little Man (22 km), Skiddaw South Top (23 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (23 km), Skiddaw (23 km), Skiddaw North Top (23 km), Broad End (24 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Broad Law (114 km, Scotland), Tinto (130 km, Scotland), White Coomb (105 km, Scotland), Ettrick Pen (97 km, Scotland), Wisp Hill (86 km, Scotland), Roan Fell (80 km, Scotland), Cauldcleuch Head (87 km, Scotland), Dun Rig (119 km, Scotland).

Computed from terrain in perfect clarity, not photographed · distances are straight-line.

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on Rest Dodd

Rest Dodd waits for the sun. Its longest wait of the modelled year falls at midwinter, when the sun is up for 39 minutes before it clears this skyline — first light 09:11 against an almanac sunrise of 08:32. You are standing in shadow while the valley below is already lit. The sun comes up to the south-east from here (139.8°), and the skyline on that bearing stands at 3.57°.

Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.

Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
	First light	Almanac sunrise	Difference
Midsummer	04:37 BST ±5.0 min	04:36	+1 min
Equinox	06:42 GMT ±5.0 min	06:15	+27 min
Midwinter	09:11 GMT ±5.0 min	08:32	+39 min

A low, open northern horizon — the ground falls away northwards (mean -0.29°).

Last light — when the sun leaves Rest Dodd

The evening here runs close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its earliest evening of the modelled year (on 1 April) last light is only 10 minutes before almanac sunset, so the published sunset time is a fair guide on Rest Dodd.

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
	Last light	Almanac sunset	Difference
Midsummer	21:54 BST ±5.0 min	21:52	+2 min
Equinox	18:17 GMT ±5.0 min	18:25	-8 min
Midwinter	15:48 GMT ±5.0 min	15:48	—

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from Rest Dodd. Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes. These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from Rest Dodd

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.

59Wainwrights in view+8 marginal

33 kmFurthest sightlineCross Fell

—Sea in viewnone from here

Far horizons

Cross Fell North PenninesNE · 33 km clear

All 59 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

The Knott (High Street), Rampsgill Head, High Raise (High Street), The Nab, Brock Crags (Wainwright), Gray Crag, Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top), High Street, Hartsop Dodd, Beda Fell (Beda Head), Thornthwaite Crag, Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor), Arnison Crag, Place Fell, Steel Knotts (Pikeawassa - Steel Knotts), High Hartsop Dodd, Loadpot Hill, Hartsop Above How (Gill Crag - Hartsop Above How), Birks, Middle Dodd, Little Hart Crag (Little Hart Crag - West Top), Red Screes, Hallin Fell, St Sunday Crag, Glenridding Dodd, Dove Crag, Hart Crag, Birkhouse Moor, High Pike (Scandale), Fairfield, Sheffield Pike, Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit), Dollywaggon Pike, Catstye Cam, Nethermost Pike, Helvellyn, Hart Side, Raise, White Side, Stybarrow Dodd, Little Mell Fell, Great Dodd, Great Mell Fell, Souther Fell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Glaramara, Wetherlam, Bowscale Fell, Great Carrs, Swirl How, Skiddaw Little Man, Grey Friar, Green Gable, Carrock Fell, Brim Fell, Great Gable, The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man), Skiddaw, Bakestall

How Rest Dodd’s view compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

Sightlines from a bare-earth terrain model (forests and buildings not included), corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

Greenbank Farm Bed and Breakfast (opens in new tab) guest house

about 1.8 km from the start, in a straight line

Ranked first despite being the eighth-nearest candidate because it answers more of the 6pm questions than anything else in the radius, and it answers them in its own sentences with prices attached: drying facilities, evening meals from £14.00, packed lunches at £6.00, and the only stated room composition on an independent B&B here. Its family room is a room for three, not four — which is exactly the fact a family of four needs before booking, and the reason a bare family_rooms=yes would have been a worse row than this one.

The farmhouse sits below Arnison Crag and looks across at Place Fell and Angletarn Pikes — the two fells this start's routes climb.

Drying room “We also have drying facilities and a large patio and garden to enjoy the view.”
Family rooms “Family: Room for three with a double and one single bed.”
Evening meal “We offer hearty home-cooked breakfasts and evening meals as well as packed lunches if required.”
Packed lunch “Packed Lunches £6.00”

Worth knowing before you book

These places state on their own site that they do not take children.

Patterdale Youth Hostel (YHA Patterdale) (opens in new tab) “Under 12s are not permitted in dorm rooms.”

What each place says about itself, quoted from their own site. We have not stayed at any of them, and there are no prices, no booking and no affiliate links. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap (opens in new tab).

Frequently asked questions about Rest Dodd

Is Rest Dodd a hard walk?

Not steep, but genuinely awkward. The broad level top is scarred by deep peat hags — some of them deeper than a person — and picking a line through them is slow, tiring work that no map will help you with. The flanks are steep and rough.

This is remote Martindale country and our routes over it are long: 22.2 km with 1349 m of ascent, rated Hard, or 22.5 km and 1279 m. Add time for the hags rather than assuming the contours tell the truth here.

Questions drawn from real Google “People also ask” searches; answers written and fact-checked by us. · Reviewed 2026-08-30 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)

Rest Dodd

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Rest Dodd at a glance

Rest Dodd

Field notes

Routes up Rest Dodd

Classifications & hill data

The short answers

Is Rest Dodd a Wainwright?

Where do you park for Rest Dodd?

My hikes over Rest Dodd (Strava)

Parking & buses for Rest Dodd

Best parking to hike Rest Dodd

Getting to Rest Dodd by bus

Hazards on Rest Dodd

Hazard & Incident Information for Rest Dodd

Navigating Rest Dodd in cloud

Map & nearby Birketts

Birketts near Rest Dodd (within 3 km)

Routes over Rest Dodd

On the hill: terrain and water on Rest Dodd

Water & shelter on the way up

The view from Rest Dodd

The 360° skyline from Rest Dodd

Sunrise and sunset on Rest Dodd

Last light — when the sun leaves Rest Dodd

What you can see from Rest Dodd

Places to stay near this fell

Greenbank Farm Bed and Breakfast (opens in new tab) guest house

Worth knowing before you book

Frequently asked questions about Rest Dodd

Other fells near Rest Dodd