England · Lake District National Park

The Knott

Height
284 m · 932 ft
Grid reference
SD 22421 91940
Coordinates
54.31714, -3.19412
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
96
OS Explorer
OL6N
Summit feature
cairn with large rock
Key col
SD224922 (259 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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Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.317, -3.194. 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

Surveyor's note

ground 25m N of cairn at SD 22416 91965 is 75 cm lower.

The recorded summit point is cairn with large rock. 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
15-Aug-12
Drop measured from
SD224922 · 259 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

The Knott is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to The Old Man of Coniston (802 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 259 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
Raven's Crag 360.8 m 1 km
Great Stickle 305 m 1.3 km
Stickle Pike 375 m 1.5 km
Tarn Hill 313 m 1.5 km
Dunnerdale Fells 280 m 1.7 km
Caw 529 m 2.6 km