Knott Rigg
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.
- Height
- 556 m · 1,824 ft
- Prominence
- 53 m
- Grid reference
- NY 19741 18871
- Coordinates
- 54.55870, -3.24261
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4S
- Summit feature
- ground 1m W of small pile of stones
- Key col
- NY200193 (503 m)
About Knott Rigg
Knott Rigg sits at the head of the Newlands Valley, some 8.5 kilometres south-west of Keswick, reaching a modest 556 metres. Its name comes from Old English and means hill on a knobbly ridge.
The height is unremarkable, but the fell appears on several hill lists including the Birketts and TuMPs, and Alfred Wainwright gave it a chapter of its own in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Knott Rigg (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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
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Computed astronomically for 54.559, -3.243. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (556 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
The recorded summit point is ground 1m W of small pile of stones. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level
- Record revised
- 15-Aug-12
- Drop measured from
- NY200193 · 503 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.
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotgate Tea Room and Shop | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 6 km · NE |
| The Kirkstile Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 4 out of 5 | 6 km · W |
| The Flight Park | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 6.5 km · NE |
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
Knott Rigg is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Grasmoor (852 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 503 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.