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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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
My memory of Skiddaw Dodd is that while it is not the stereotypically pointed summit. it is certainly narrower than the much longer and broader Skiddaw, of whose massif it is a small part. I suggest that it is relatively sharper than Skiddaw.
I have been up Skiddaw, but I have only been on the main summits, but there is a wide moorland below the main summit and on the North East side that I have never crossed. It is heather covered in abundance. I don't think that many walk there, and I did not see many sheep on it. It looks suitable for grouse.
I must say that it is a good while since we took the children up Skiddaw.
TY for that information. Much appreciated as always.
That is interesting because Dodd isn't what I would have thought of as pointed. It is more of a rounded fell on the way up to Skiddaw Summit .
The word dodd in Northern English dialect indicates a peak with a relatively pointed summit.