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Unnamed top (School Knott)

Short entry: no route or hazard notes for this fell yet.

Nearest route starts ↓
247 mOutlying Fell — South Lakeland

Summit conditions on Unnamed top (School Knott)

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 14° to 8°C, gusts to 42 mph, 4.5 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses

School Knott (layby)
0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Grandsire car park (free)
1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Stagecoach 508 “Ullswater Bus”

Parking & buses ↓

Routes near Unnamed top (School Knott)

No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest route starts we publish, in a straight line from the summit:

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 247 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
14° / 8°
42 mph
4.5 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
12° / 9°
30 mph
8.1 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
10° / 9°
24 mph
0.0 mm (14%)
Fri 30 Oct
11° / 7°
24 mph
0.0 mm (29%)
Sat 31 Oct
13° / 2°
7 mph
0.0 mm (20%)
Sun 1 Nov
9° / 2°
11 mph
0.0 mm (12%)
Mon 2 Nov
10° / 2°
13 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Parking & buses for Unnamed top (School Knott)

Parking

School Knott (layby) — 0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Unnamed top (School Knott) (0.8 km), School Knott (1.3 km), Brant Fell (1.3 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Ground surface (OSM-tagged).
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Grandsire car park (free) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Unnamed top (School Knott) (1.6 km), Grandsire (2.0 km). Free (OSM-tagged). Ground surface (OSM-tagged).
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Windermere, Broad Street (W&F, paid) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for Orrest Head — the 'Orrest Head' route starts 404 m away. Fees: pay and display. Toilets on site. 30min 90p; 1h £2.60; 2h £4.40; 3h £5.80; 4h £7.40; 6h £8.80; all day £10.60. Early Bird £1.40 all day (bought before 09:00, designated bays only). Charges apply 08:00-20:00, 7 days a week incl. bank holidays. The council's own page is contradictory about access outside those hours - it says both open all day and open from 8am to 8pm - so do not count on getting in before 08:00 (W&F council, checked August 2026). Motorcycles free. Blue Badge: +1h free. Cash/card/contactless; PayByPhone 9865 / 9879. 3/7-day passes; permits accepted except Early Bird bays (W&F council, checked August 2026).
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2 more places to park near Unnamed top (School Knott)
B5284 Crook Road, 0.6 km N of Lindeth (layby) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
Nearest fells: Brant Fell (0.4 km). Free (OSM-tagged).
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Orrest Head, south (layby) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for Orrest Head — the 'Orrest Head' route starts 263 m away. Free (OSM-tagged).
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Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 6, 508, 555, 599 and 755 stop at Bowness on Windermere, opposite St Martins Church, a 2.4 km walk from the nearest parking for this fell. We haven’t mapped a route up it, so we can’t tell you the walk from there to the start. As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Penrith (508): Tuesday to Sunday 19:04. Towards Keswick (555): Tuesday to Saturday 22:29 to Grasmere, 20:13 to Keswick only. Towards Windermere (555): Tuesday to Saturday 23:35 (on to Kendal); Sunday 20:40. Towards Ulverston (6): Tuesday to Saturday 23:19; Sunday 23:22 to Ulverston, 17:56 to Ulverston St Mary's. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 24 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Unnamed top (School Knott)

We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. The National Park Authority’s What to pack page, AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map & nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Unnamed top (School Knott)

No bonus Birketts within 3 km.

About Unnamed top (School Knott)

Classifications & hill data

Is Unnamed top (School Knott) a Wainwright?

Unnamed top (School Knott) is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides.

Selected lists

247 m
Height
810 ft
In feet
SD 4284 9672
Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is not a Birkett top.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

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