⛰️ Starling Dodd

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

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633 mWainwright — Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

The east top of Starling Dodd at 590m (1,936ft) is a subsidiary summit on the eastern ridge of Starling Dodd above Ennerdale, giving views of the Ennerdale valley and the high fells above. A Birkett top on the ridge connecting Starling Dodd to the Great Borne ridge. Part of the circuit of the northern Buttermere-Ennerdale fells.

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 ESELittle Dodd (Ennerdale)590 m · Western
1.0 km NWGale Fell518 m · Western
2.2 km NNEScale Knott338 m · Western
2.2 km EDodd (Buttermere)641 m · North Western
2.5 km WNWHerdus562 m · Western
2.6 km NWFloutern Cop451 m · Western
2.6 km SLingmell (Ennerdale)427 m · Western
2.7 km WBrown How (Ennerdale)330 m · Western
2.9 km ESEHigh Stile (Grey Crag - High Stile)806 m · Western
3.0 km WBowness Knott333 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Starling Dodd (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Bowness Knott, Ennerdale (free) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry car park on Ennerdale's north shore — Great Borne, Starling Dodd, and the long walk-ins to Pillar and Steeple.
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Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 3.5 km from summit (straight line)
For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.
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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 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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