Summit Register

Lake District fell · Cumberland, England

Grey Knotts

697 m

2,287 ftDrop 16 mNY 217 125

Finder: 111 Wainwrights in Cumberland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGrey Knotts697Brandreth715Base Brown646Green Gable799.9Fleetwith Pike648.9
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGrey Knotts697Brandreth715Base Brown646
Looking north, 86 km wide, heights ×24 (method).

Grey Knotts is a Lake District fell of 697 m in Cumberland. It rises only 16 m above its key col, 2.3% of its height.

Its key col leads to Great Gable, not to its nearest higher summit, Brandreth. It shares its height of 697 m with Caw Fell and Bencollaghduff. On the Wainwrights height ladder it sits between Gray Crag (698.1 m) and Caw Fell (697 m). The key col is close by, only 0.3 km to the south at 681 m. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 89 and 90.

To scale

Summit697 mKey col681 msea level
Key col NY 216 122, 0.3 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

697 m102nd highest of 242 in England

Drop

16 m1104th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

0.7 km1099th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Brandreth0.7 km south
    715 m
  2. 2
    Base Brown1.4 km south-east
    646 m
  3. 3
    Green Gable1.9 km south
    799.9 m
  4. 4
    Fleetwith Pike2.0 km north-west
    648.9 m
1234BrandrethBase BrownGreen GableFleetwith PikeN1 km

Lists

  • 91st highest of 214 Wainwrights
  • 131st highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Brandreth, 715 m, 0.7 km south
Parent Marilyn
Great Gable
Region
34B: Lake District C&W
OS map
89, 90
Summit
Cairn on outcrop on W top
DoBIH no.
2424
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Grey Knotts

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures