Skiddaw Dodd lies on Forestry Commission land known locally as Dodd Wood. There has been exensive planting to replace the logging but the Forestry Commission have cleared the summit and the top is now visible from across Bassenthwaite Lake. It is a very pleasant and popular family walk with just a long pull up to the top after which it levels off.
Bassenthwaite Lake is in a quieter part of the English Lake District and the Lake isn't very accessible.
We walked up part of Skiddaw Dodd recently with our daughter in law who is pregnant and our two year old grandson. They managed most of it.
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The A591 is winding and in parts it is unlit too. This makes it hazardous for walkers.
The computer crashed before I commenced another component of my comment-question below.
The Old Sawmill Tearoom page advises us that "Visitors with dogs are very welcome at the tables outside the cafe."
Are felines and other sentient-animal companions allowed?
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
The Old Sawmill Company link is invitingly user-friendly and user-informative.
Its Old Sawmill Tearoom page mentions a footpath that "avoids the risks of walking along the A591."
What might those risks be?
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At The Old Sawmill cakes are freshly made each day and you never know what they will have when you turn up, exhausted from climbing the mountain. They are not written down on the menu because they are so freshly made and different each day .
There are always some homemade scones, a few types of layer cakes, a selection of pies etc always freshly made and delicious.The web site is here;-
http://theoldsawmill.co.uk/menu.php
Veronica, What kind of home-made cakes do they serve at the café at the end of Dodd walk?
When I used to drive down to Cambridge [in the East] on business I used to struggle through the traffic on the A1 until I saw the sign for the North, and a sense of relief swept over me. The reason: I am a Northerner at heart. I don't feel at home in the South. I dwelt in London in term time for two years and suffered it. Never again!
TY. My photos are mainly from the North of England.
Most people want to visit London which is just a city but the best of England is further North. My husband had never been North until he came to college here after London University 40 years ago. He's never lived in the South ever again and wouldn't want to.
Your images are very nice. It makes me wish to visit England one day. Wonderful land you have there.
Helen, our daughter,was about 6 at the time, and she is now thirty, so it is 24 years since we last climbed it.
Must be 17 years since we took our children up Skiddaw