Allerby is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Allerby postcode: CA7 2NJ

Retail in Allerby

There are great places to visit near Allerby 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.

The area around Allerby boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Allerby if you like hiking areas.

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

The area around Allerby features a number of interesting ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

The area around Allerby boasts some of the best ruins including 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.

Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are great places to visit near Allerby if you like old mines.

The area around Allerby features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Allerby best rivers and streams to visit near Allerby.

Lakes to visit near Allerby include Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

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

There are a several good mountains in the Allerby area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Allerby boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

There are a several good historic buildings in the Allerby area like Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

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

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Allerby best caves to visit near Allerby.

The area around Allerby boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Allerby include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Allerby's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Places near Allerby feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.

Allerby History

There are some historic monuments around Allerby:

• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 105m SE of Old Mawbray
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• Beckfoot Roman fort
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields
• Moated site of Wolsty Castle
• Tute Hill motte
• Enclosure 1/2 mile (800m) S of Wolsty
• Bank Mill tower 15a, 250m north west of Belmont House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Romano-British farmstead 250m ENE of Belmont House
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Wardhall Guards Medieval Settlement
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Cockermouth Castle: medieval enclosure castle and site of earlier motte and bailey castle
• Enclosure 125m SE of Old Mawbray
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Westnewton Castle
• Wolsty South tower 13b, 200m WNW of New House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Netherhall
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Allonby saltpan
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Oval enclosure 120m N of Brownrigg Hall
• Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, 680m WSW of Hailforth, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Dubmill Point milefortlet 17, 560m WNW of Hill House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Settlement 450m east of Eweclose
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Enclosure 130m SSE of Old Mawbray
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Settlement W of Birkby