England · Lake District National Park

Gibson Knott

WainwrightBirkettSyngeFellranger

3 classifications here — Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Gibson Knott, 420 m, Westmorland and Furness
Gibson Knott, 420 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
420.1 m · 1,378 ft
Grid reference
NY 31690 10036
Coordinates
54.48107, -3.05583
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5S OL7N
Summit feature
cairn on rocky outcrop
Key col
NY 3163 1004 (411.3 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Needs the landowner's permission — the Dartmoor commons are the only exception in England.

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

Sunrise
Sunset
Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.481, -3.056. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

Fellranger summit is the cairn 200m SE at NY 31853 09923 and is 2m higher.

The recorded summit point is cairn on rocky outcrop. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
29-Nov-20
Drop measured from
NY 3163 1004 · 411.3 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Coast to Coast Walk 303 km 0.5 km

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Gibson Knott is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Raise (763 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 411 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks

PeakHeightDistance
Steel Fell 553 m 1.1 km
Helm Crag 405 m 1.2 km
Tarn Crag (Easedale) 549 m 1.5 km
Calf Crag 537 m 1.6 km
Blea Rigg 541.5 m 2.7 km
Codale Head 732 m 3 km