Retail in Askerton
There are great places to visit near Askerton 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.
Don't miss Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks's hills if visiting the area around Askerton.
Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Askerton best hiking areas to visit near Askerton.
There are a several good villages in the Askerton area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Askerton's best nearby ancient sites can be found at 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 Askerton 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.
Old Mines to visit near Askerton include 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 several good waterfalls in the Askerton area like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Askerton.
The area around Askerton boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Woodlands to visit near Askerton include Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Askerton's best nearby towns can be found at 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 Askerton if you like mountains.
Askerton has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
The area around Askerton features a number of interesting historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
The area around Askerton's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.
Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Askerton if you like caves.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Askerton if you like bluebell woods.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Askerton if you like nature reserves.
Askerton is near some unmissable disused railway lines like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,
There are a number of airports near Askerton including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
The area close to Askerton boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.
Askerton History
There are some historic monuments around Askerton:
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- Ten medieval shielings on north bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 130m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Crew Castle bastle
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Lanercost Bridge
- Two medieval shielings 30m north west of Stantling Loan on Greyfell Common
- Boothby Roman fort
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- Towerbrae round cairn
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Low Grains bastle
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Shiel Knowe round cairn
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Hazel Gill shieling
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks and the road to Garthside in wall miles 52, 53 and 54
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 410m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of seven
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Four medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- 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
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- Horse Head medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 50m west of confluence of Gosling Sike and Horsehead Grain
- Unfinished high cross shaft on Long Bar 580m north east of Todcrag Loch
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 230m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Willowford Roman temporary camp
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- Medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 310m north west of Stantling Loan
- Two medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne 230m north east of confluence with little Hare Grain
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- Stantling Loan medieval shieling
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- White Lyne round cairn 60m NNW of confluence of Gate Grain and White Lyne
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
