The Knott (Stainton Fell)
The Knott (331 m / 1,086 ft) is the summit of Stainton Fell, a broad moorland shoulder on the Birkby Fell side of Wainwright's Devoke Water circuit, away to the south-west above Waberthwaite and Corney.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 331 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 27 mph, 0.7 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 331 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
The Knott (Stainton Fell) at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is The Knott (Stainton Fell) a Wainwright?
The Knott (Stainton Fell) is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for The Knott (Stainton Fell)?
We hold no car park within 2.5 km of the summit, so there is no short walk-in to recommend here. 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 The Knott (Stainton Fell)
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Green Crag & Great Whinscale — the wild Birker Fell round — starts 3.7 km away
- Birketts Around Devoke Water — starts 3.7 km away
- Around Sele Bottom — starts 5.5 km away
Parking & buses for The Knott (Stainton Fell)
Best parking to hike The Knott (Stainton Fell)
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 The Knott (Stainton Fell) by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Coniston, outside The Ruskin Centre, 22.9 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on The Knott (Stainton Fell)
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: Broad Oak (layby), about 3.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near The Knott (Stainton Fell) (within 3 km)
No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.
On the hill: terrain and water on The Knott (Stainton Fell)
Terrain & access
A pathless top (about 331 m) — the nearest mapped path is about 318 m away, the open ground you’d cross to the summit (about 41 m of ascent, up to ~23°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.
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 144 fells.