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.

Aglionby has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Aglionby's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Aglionby's best nearby villages can be found at Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are some of Aglionby best ancient sites to visit near Aglionby.

Don't miss 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's ruins if visiting the area around Aglionby.

Aglionby's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

There are a number of waterfalls near Aglionby including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

The area around Aglionby boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

There are a several good lakes in the Aglionby area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Aglionby.

Don't miss Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen's towns if visiting the area around Aglionby.

Aglionby's best nearby mountains can be found at Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of castles near Aglionby including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Don't miss Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct's historic buildings if visiting the area around Aglionby.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Aglionby like Fairy Steps.

Aglionby's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

The area around Aglionby features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

The area around Aglionby's best nature reserves can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Aglionby if you like disused railway lines.

There are a several good airports in the Aglionby area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Aglionby if you like islands.

Aglionby History

There are some historic monuments around Aglionby:

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