High Knott

About High Knott

High Knott, near Staveley, appears on some Ordnance Survey maps as Williamson's Monument, after the structure on its 275 m summit. The Reverend T. Williamson raised it in 1803 in memory of his father Thomas, who is said to have climbed the fell every day before breakfast.

Wainwright's chapter in The Outlying Fells of Lakeland starts near the 17th-century Ulthwaite Bridge on the River Kent, takes in High Knott and then makes a clockwise circuit past the early British village site at Hugill and over what he called the pleasant heights on the west side of mid-Kentmere. As of May 2016 the landowner forbids access to the summit.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on High Knott (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

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

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Computed astronomically for 54.394, -2.842. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Reaching High Knott by train

3 National Rail stations sit within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

High Knott is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Street (829 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 220 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.

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