Knott

About Knott

Knott is the highest ground in the Back o'Skiddaw, the tract of wild and little-visited moorland lying north of Skiddaw and Blencathra. High Pike, Carrock Fell and Great Calva are among the other tops of that region. Its slopes are largely smooth and grassy, broken here and there by deep ravines.

Being a long way from any road, and screened from the rest of the Lake District by its two large neighbours, it sees fewer visitors than almost any other top in the district; approaches are most often made from Mungrisdale or from the north over Great Sca Fell. The name is Cumbric in origin and means simply hill.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Knott, Caldbeck (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 54.687, -3.093. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

03-Jun-24

Drop measured from

NY 2784 3037 · 467.9 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.

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

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.

The Knott group

13 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Knott as the independent hill at its head.

Twelve highest shown, of 13 in the group.

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