Aglionby is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Aglionby postcode: CA4 8AJ

Retail in Aglionby

There are great places to visit near Aglionby including some great hills, hiking areas, villages, ancient sites, ruins, old mines, waterfalls, rivers and streams, lakes, woodlands, towns, mountains, castles, historic buildings, historic monuments, caves, bluebell woods, nature reserves, disused railway lines, airports and islands.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are some of Aglionby best hills to visit near Aglionby.

Hiking Areas to visit near Aglionby include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Aglionby.

Ancient Sites to visit near Aglionby include Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

There are a several good ruins in the Aglionby area like Bonsor East Mine Workings, Bonsor Dressing Floors, Penny Rigg Copper Mill, Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), and Hebblethwaite Hall Gill.

The area around Aglionby features a number of interesting old mines including Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

The area around Aglionby boasts some of the best waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Aglionby has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are some of Aglionby best lakes to visit near Aglionby.

The area around Aglionby boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

The area around Aglionby boasts some of the best towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Aglionby if you like mountains.

Castles to visit near Aglionby include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are some of Aglionby best historic buildings to visit near Aglionby.

Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Aglionby if you like historic monuments.

There are a several good caves in the Aglionby area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Aglionby has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Aglionby is near some unmissable nature reserves like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

Places near Aglionby feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Aglionby has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Aglionby.

Aglionby History

There are some historic monuments around Aglionby:

• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• City wall, NE side
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum from A6071 to The Cottage in the case of the Wall, and to the road to Oldwall, for the vallum, in wall miles 57, 58 and 59
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Castle Hill
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Park House Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundaries north of the properties on Whiteclosegate and the field boundary west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row