St. John's Hill · Caermote Hill N Top

About St. John's Hill

St John's Hill is the northern top of Caer Mote, the 289 m hill near Bothel at the northern edge of the Lake District. At 285 m it is the first summit reached on Wainwright's round, which climbs from Bothel to St John's Hill, carries on south to the main top and then swings south-east to a minor road by the Roman fort for an anticlockwise return.

An earthwork enclosure of undetermined age known as The Battery sits on this northern top. Below the hill to the south-east are traces of a 1st-century Roman fort, and the main summit, just outside the national park boundary, looks out over Bassenthwaite Lake.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Caer Mote (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 54.728, -3.250. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is knoll. 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

NY196372 · 278 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.

Reaching St. John's Hill by train

One National Rail station sits 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

St. John's Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Binsey (447 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 278 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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