⛰️ Great Knott

695 m · Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

695 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+12 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts 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.

1.0 km WNWCrinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle)834 m · Southern
1.0 km WStonesty Pike765 m · Southern
1.3 km NWCrinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle832 m · Southern
1.3 km SWLittle Stand740 m · Southern
1.4 km NWShelter Crags815 m · Southern
1.8 km NWhite Stones - The Band568 m · Southern
2.1 km EWrynose Fell - Long Crag547 m · Southern
2.6 km EBlake Rigg (Little Langdale)535 m · Southern
2.8 km SSEHell Gill Pike662 m · Southern
3.0 km SSELittle Carrs692 m · Southern
3.0 km WSWYew Bank499 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Great Knott (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Three Shire Stone, Wrynose Pass (verge) — 2.5 km from summit (straight line)
High-level start for Pike o' Blisco, Cold Pike, Wet Side Edge and the Greenburn fells.
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Blea Tarn (NT, paid) — 3.6 km from summit (straight line)
Between the Langdales — Lingmoor, Pike o' Blisco, Blake Rigg side.
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Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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