Arnside Knott


Arnside Knott is a hill with a summit elevation of, near Arnside, Cumbria, England. It is not in the Lake District National Park, lying south of the River Kent which forms the south eastern boundary of the national park. It is within the Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape, and is National Trust property.
Arnside Knott is the lowest Marilyn in England. It was not included in Alan Dawson's The Relative Hills of Britain which was the first listing of Marilyns and showed the lowest one as the Hebridean island of Muldoanich, but was added to the list in 2004–05. A detailed survey of the summit and the col was made in 2010, confirming their heights as +/- and +/- respectively, giving a prominence of +/- and confirming the hill's status as a Marilyn. The col is a point on the railway line east of Silverdale, the further north of two pedestrian railway crossings near Waterslack.
Arnside Knott has been described as "one of the best sites in Britain to see butterflies", and rare species found there include the high brown fritillary and the Scotch argus.
The National Trust grazes Highland cattle on Arnside Knott.
On the north slopes of the hill the now defunct Arnside Golf Club had a golf course from 1906 to the time of World War 2.