⛰️ Grey Knotts

697 m · Wainwright — Western Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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697 mWainwright — Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+3 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Grey Knotts at 697m (2,287ft) is the first summit above Honister Pass, a pleasant rocky summit giving fine views of the Gable group and across Borrowdale. Wainwright included it as the ideal starting fell for the Honister ridge circuit — short, satisfying and giving immediate views of the Scafell and Gable groups. The ascent from Honister Hause is very short. Combined naturally with Brandreth and then Green Gable and Great Gable for a full day's circuit.

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.

1.7 km NNWHonister Crag (Black Star)634 m · Western
2.6 km SWKirk Fell East Top (Kirk Fell North Top)787 m · Western
2.9 km ESEThornythwaite Fell574 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Grey Knotts (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) — 1.3 km from summit (straight line)
Pay & display at the top of the pass — Dale Head, Fleetwith Pike, Grey Knotts with minimal ascent.
Directions ↗
Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
Directions ↗

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.
Stagecoach 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).

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

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