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Steel Knotts · Pikeawassa - Steel Knotts

WainwrightBirkettSyngeFellranger

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.

Steel Knotts, 432 m, Westmorland and Furness
Steel Knotts, 432 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
432 m · 1,417 ft
Grid reference
NY 44038 18122
Coordinates
54.55524, -2.86681
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
90
OS Explorer
OL5S
Summit feature
rock outcrop
Key col
NY441177 (381 m)

About Steel Knotts

Steel Knotts, also given as Pikeawassa, is a fell of the Far Eastern Fells near Ullswater. It occupies a north-south ridge dividing the valleys of Fusedale and Martindale, and is listed as a Wainwright, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Steel Knotts (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 54.555, -2.867. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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

Finding the summit

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

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
17-Oct-11
Drop measured from
NY441177 · 381 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Steel Knotts 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, 381 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
Beda Fell 509 m 1.5 km
Loadpot Hill 672 m 1.6 km
Hallin Fell 388 m 1.8 km
Wether Hill 672.5 m 2.1 km
Wether Hill 675.7 m 2.3 km
Bonscale Pike 524 m 2.4 km