The Knott (High Street)
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
- 739 m · 2,425 ft
- Prominence
- 13 m
- Grid reference
- NY 43711 12681
- Coordinates
- 54.50632, -2.87082
- County / area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Region
- Lake District E
- OS Landranger
- 90
- OS Explorer
- OL5S
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NY437126 (726 m)
About The Knott (High Street)
The Knott rises above Hayeswater in the Far Eastern Fells, and is best understood as an outlier of Rampsgill Head — the high point of the ridge running from there across to Rest Dodd.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on The Knott (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 54.506, -2.871. 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).
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 | Total length | From summit |
|---|---|---|
| Coast to Coast Walk | 303 km | over the top |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
Which hill this one belongs to
The Knott (High Street) 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, 726 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Rampsgill Head | 792.4 m | 0.6 km |
| Kidsty Pike | 781 m | 1 km |
| Rest Dodd | 696 m | 1.1 km |
| High Raise (High Street) | 803.6 m | 1.4 km |
| Gray Crag | 698.1 m | 1.4 km |
| High Street | 828.5 m | 1.6 km |