England · Lake District National Park

Thunacar Knott

WainwrightNuttallBirkettSyngeFellranger

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Thunacar Knott, 723 m, Westmorland and Furness
Thunacar Knott, 723 m, Westmorland and Furness. Photo by Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
723 m · 2,372 ft
Grid reference
NY 27975 07992
Coordinates
54.46219, -3.11265
County / area
Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
89 90
OS Explorer
OL6N
Summit feature
rock 3m NNE of cairn
Key col
NY280077 (695 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

Sunrise
Sunset
Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 54.462, -3.113. 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

Wainwright summit is large cairn on mound 155m NNW at NY 27913 08136.

The recorded summit point is rock 3m NNE of cairn. 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
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
NY280077 · 695 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.

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.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Cumbria Way 119 km 1.6 km

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Thunacar Knott is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Raise (763 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 695 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
Pavey Ark 701.6 m 0.5 km
Harrison Stickle 735.3 m 0.6 km
Pike of Stickle 708.4 m 0.9 km
Loft Crag 681.7 m 0.9 km
Sergeant Man 736 m 1.1 km
Codale Head 732 m 1.4 km