Glenridding Dodd
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Glenridding Dodd, seen from the other side of Ullswater, showing Stybarrow Crag by the shore
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 442 m (1,450 ft) |
| Prominence | 45 m (148 ft) |
| Parent peak | Sheffield Pike |
| Listing | Wainwright |
| Coordinates | 54°32′56″N 2°57′30″W / 54.54895°N 2.95846°WCoordinates: 54°32′56″N 2°57′30″W / 54.54895°N 2.95846°W |
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 Glenridding Dodd
Location in Lake District, UK
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| Location | Cumbria, England |
| Parent range | Lake District, Eastern Fells |
| OS grid | NY381175 |
| Topo map | OS Explorer OL5 |
Glenridding Dodd (the rounded hill above Glenridding) is a small fell in the English Lake District, at the end of a ridge descending from the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It stands above the village of Glenridding and on the western shore of Ullswater. Although small and not of great elevation, its top is a fine viewpoint for Ullswater and for the fells clustered round the valleys above Patterdale.
Glenridding Dodd is the final subsidiary top on the east ridge of Stybarrow Dodd. It takes the form of a short east-west ridge above the village of Glenridding. To the east the ridge falls steeply and terminates in the precipitous rock face of Stybarrow Crag beside the A592 road on the shore of Ullswater. To the west a col separates it from the south-east ridge of Sheffield Pike. To the north it is bounded by Mossdale Beck, and to the south by the village of Glenridding, and Glenridding Beck. The lower slopes on the south and east sides are wooded with deciduous trees (the Stybarrow Oaks), and on the north side larch trees reach almost to the summit
Glenridding Dodd is a small fell measuring only 1 km in length and less than that in width, and its highest point rises to only 442 m. Yet it is a fine viewpoint over Ullswater, nearly 300 m below.
The top of Glenridding Dodd is a short ridge, with patches of heather, rocky knolls and marshy hollows. The highest point, at the western end, is marked by a small cairn, but better views of Glenridding and almost the whole of Ullswater may be had from the eastern end of the ridge where the ground falls steeply away, just above the 400 m contour. For a low fell the view is "delightful." Beyond Glenridding are the claw-shaped end of Birkhouse Moor, and Keldas, its subsidiary top closer to the lake. Further south, the fells clustered around the valleys above Patterdale are seen.
A stone boundary marker, just west of the summit, is inscribed with the letters M (on the side facing Glenridding) and H (on the side facing Glencoyne). This marked the boundary between the lands of the Marshall family of Patterdale and the Howard family of Greystoke.
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