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Outlying Fell — Northern Outliers

St. John's Hill (Caermote Hill N Top)

St John's Hill at 285m (935ft) is an Outlying Fell north of the Lake District proper near Bothel, forming the northern top of the Caermote Hill group.

285 m
Height
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Bonus Birketts
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285 mOutlying Fell — Northern Outlierssummit is not a Birkett top+0 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast

Modelled guidance for the 285 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 18° to 16°C, gusts to 32 mph, 2.3 mm of rain forecast.

Tue 28 Jul
🌧️
18° / 16°
💨 32 mph
🌧 2.3 mm (77%)
Wed 29 Jul
🌧️
17° / 13°
💨 28 mph
🌧 10.2 mm (79%)
Thu 30 Jul
🌦️
15° / 9°
💨 31 mph
🌧 2.2 mm (76%)
Fri 31 Jul
🌤️
16° / 7°
💨 25 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (69%)
Sat 1 Aug
🌦️
17° / 6°
💨 17 mph
🌧 0.3 mm (63%)
Sun 2 Aug
🌤️
18° / 6°
💨 15 mph
🌧 0.0 mm (25%)
Mon 3 Aug
🌦️
17° / 10°
💨 13 mph
🌧 0.2 mm (20%)

Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 285 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.

About the walk

Key information

St. John's Hill (Caermote Hill N Top)

St John's Hill at 285m (935ft) is an Outlying Fell north of the Lake District proper near Bothel, forming the northern top of the Caermote Hill group. Wainwright included it in his Outlying Fells guide as part of the Northern Outliers group. Gives views north across the Solway Firth to Scotland. A quiet, remote hill north of the main Lakeland fells.

Classifications & hill data
Outlying Fell
Northern Outliers
285 m
Height
935 ft
In feet

Map & nearby Birketts

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

Nearest parking: Peter House Farm, Bassenthwaite (roadside), about 7.5 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.

Birketts near St. John's Hill (Caermote Hill N Top) (within 3 km)

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

Terrain & access

A near-path top (about 285 m): a mapped path comes within about 192 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 16 m of ascent, up to ~10°). The summit is not on CRoW open access land, and the direct approach crosses land that is neither access land nor a right of way — there may be no public right to the top, so check access before you go.

Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 145 fells.

Best parking to hike St. John's Hill (Caermote Hill N Top)

Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).

Peter House Farm, Bassenthwaite (roadside) — 7.5 km from summit (straight line)
Dash Falls track — Bakestall, Great Calva, Skiddaw the quiet way.
Directions (opens in new tab)
Dodd Wood (paid) — 10.9 km from summit (straight line)
Forestry car park for Dodd, Carl Side and the Ullock Pike ridge onto Skiddaw.
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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.

Buses to St. John's Hill (Caermote Hill N Top) 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 (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Maps & guidebooks for St. John's Hill (Caermote Hill N Top)

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