Bowness Knott
Bowness Knott at 333m (1,093ft) is a Birkett fell above the south shore of Ennerdale Water, its heathery summit giving views across the lake to the high Ennerdale fells and west towards the coastal plain.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 333 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 14° to 11°C, gusts to 24 mph, 1.3 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 333 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Bowness Knott at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Bowness Knott a Wainwright?
Bowness Knott is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for Bowness Knott?
The nearest car park we hold is Bowness Knott, Ennerdale (Forestry, paid), about 0.3 km from the summit in a straight line. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
Routes up Bowness Knott
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Birketts by Kirkland — starts 4.7 km away
- Grike, Crag Fell and Lank Rigg — starts 5.5 km away
- Around Loweswater — starts 5.9 km away
Parking & buses for Bowness Knott
Best parking to hike Bowness Knott
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Bowness Knott by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 77 at Buttermere, outside Court Hotel, 8.9 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car. It is a seasonal service too: 1 November 2026 is its last day of the year (confirmed with the operator, 29 August 2026).
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Bowness Knott
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Bowness Knott, Ennerdale (Forestry, paid), about 0.3 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Bowness Knott (within 3 km)
These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits — detour to them on this walk and they are pure profit. Distances are straight-line; allow extra for terrain.
Other fells near Bowness Knott
- Base Brown
- Blake Fell
- Brandreth
- Buckbarrow
- Burnbank Fell
- Caw Fell
- Crag Fell
- Fellbarrow - Mosser Fell
- Fleetwith Pike
- Gavel Fell
- Great Borne
- Great Gable
- Green Gable
- Grey Knotts
- Grike
- Haycock
- Haystacks (Buttermere)
- Hen Comb
- High Crag (Buttermere)
- High Stile
- Kirk Fell
- Lank Rigg
- Low Fell
- Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top)
- Middle Fell
- Pillar
- Red Pike (Buttermere)
- Red Pike (Wasdale)
- Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell)
- Seatallan
- Starling Dodd
- Steeple
- Yewbarrow