⛰️ Knipescar Common (Knipe Scar)

341 m · Outlying Fell — Around Penrith · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

341 mOutlying Fell — Around Penrith✓ summit is also a Birkett+0 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Knipescar Common (Knipe Scar) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Shap village (free) — 5.1 km from summit (straight line)
For the Shap fells and Crosby Ravensworth commons.
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Wet Sleddale dam (free) — 7.6 km from summit (straight line)
For the quiet Shap-side fells: Seat Robert, Sleddale fells.
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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

Route 106
Penrith – Eamont Bridge – Askham – Shap – Kendal
Catch it from: Penrith
Monday–Saturday, infrequent — plan carefully. Useful for the Shap and Crosby Ravensworth outlying fells.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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