England · Lake District National Park

Symonds Knott

NuttallSynge

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Height
959.3 m · 3,147 ft
Grid reference
NY 20789 06756
Coordinates
54.45001, -3.22316
County / area
Cumberland
OS Landranger
89 90
OS Explorer
OL6N
Summit feature
cairn on rock
Key col
NY 2076 0665 (938.4 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

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Computed astronomically for 54.450, -3.223. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (959 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

rocky tor 30m SW at NY 20770 06735 is 2m lower.

The recorded summit point is cairn on rock. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level/Leica RX1250
Record revised
13-Dec-17
Drop measured from
NY 2076 0665 · 938.4 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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Symonds Knott
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Wasdale Head InnHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house4 out of 52.6 km · W
Woolpack InnHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house5 out of 56 km · S
Eskdale CampsiteTakeaway/sandwich shop5 out of 56 km · S

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

Symonds Knott is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Scafell Pike (978 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 938 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
Scafell963.9 m0.3 km
Scafell Pike978.1 m0.9 km
Broad Crag935.3 m1.3 km
Lingmell807 m1.4 km
Middleboot Knotts703 m1.4 km
Ill Crag930.9 m1.6 km