England · Lake District National Park

Scalebarrow Knott

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

Height
338 m · 1,109 ft
Grid reference
NY 51985 15313
Coordinates
54.53082, -2.74348
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5S
Summit feature
cairn on outcrop
Key col
NY517150 (329 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 54.531, -2.743. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (338 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

ground 30m W at NY 51954 15315 is 20cm lower.

The recorded summit point is cairn on 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
10-May-05
Drop measured from
NY517150 · 329 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 0.8 km

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

Which hill this one belongs to

Scalebarrow 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, 329 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
Harper Hills 420 m 1.5 km
nameless (Naddle Horseshoe - 3) 395 m 1.5 km
Hugh's Laithes Pike 419 m 1.8 km
Langhowe Pike 401 m 2 km
Wallow Crag 433 m 2.4 km
Naddle High Forest 435 m 2.9 km