Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Great Dodd

857 m

2,812 ftDrop 109 mNY 342 205

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGreat Dodd857Watson's Dodd789Stybarrow Dodd843.7Hart Side756Clough Head726
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGreat Dodd857Watson's Dodd789Stybarrow Dodd843.7
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Great Dodd is a Lake District fell of 857 m in Cumberland. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Stybarrow Dodd, reaches 843.7 m.

Its key col leads to Helvellyn, not to its nearest higher summit, Raise. It shares its height of 857 m with Beinn a' Chrulaiste and Cruach Innse. Its drop of 109 m makes it a Hewitt but is short of the 150 m a Marilyn needs. It is 221.7 m above the average height of the 114 register hills in Cumberland.

To scale

Summit857 mKey col748 msea level
Key col NY 342 181, 2.4 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

857 m20th highest of 242 in England

Drop

109 m959th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

3.1 km562nd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Watson's Dodd1.2 km south-west
    789 m
  2. 2
    Stybarrow Dodd1.6 km south
    843.7 m
  3. 3
    Hart Side1.9 km south-east
    756 m
  4. 4
    Clough Head2.2 km north-west
    726 m
1234Watson's DoddStybarrow DoddHart SideClough HeadN1 km

Lists

  • 19th highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 35th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 31st highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Raise, 882.7 m, 3.1 km south
Parent Marilyn
Helvellyn
Region
34C: Lake District E
OS map
90
Summit
No feature: ground 30m SSE of cairn
DoBIH no.
2525
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Great Dodd

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures