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.
Askerton's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
The area around Askerton boasts some of the best hiking areas including 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 Askerton.
Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Askerton if you like ancient sites.
Askerton has some unmissable ruins nearby 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.
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 some of Askerton best old mines to visit near Askerton.
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.
River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Askerton best rivers and streams to visit near Askerton.
Askerton's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Askerton has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Towns to visit near Askerton include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Askerton'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.
Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are great places to visit near Askerton if you like castles.
The area around Askerton boasts some of the best 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.
There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Askerton like Fairy Steps.
There are a number of caves near Askerton including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Askerton's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
The area around Askerton's best nature reserves can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Askerton's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Askerton.
Askerton's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Islands to visit near Askerton include Piel Island.
Askerton History
There are some historic monuments around Askerton:
- Willowford Roman temporary camp
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Crew Castle bastle
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 230m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Hazel Gill shieling
- 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
- Lanercost Bridge
- Shiel Knowe round cairn
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- 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
- Towerbrae round cairn
- Unfinished high cross shaft on Long Bar 580m north east of Todcrag Loch
- Two medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne 230m north east of confluence with little Hare Grain
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- White Lyne round cairn 60m NNW of confluence of Gate Grain and White Lyne
- Boothby Roman fort
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
- Two medieval shielings 30m north west of Stantling Loan on Greyfell Common
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Stantling Loan medieval shieling
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
- Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Four medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 410m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- 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
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- 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
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Horse Head medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 50m west of confluence of Gosling Sike and Horsehead Grain
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Low Grains bastle
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 310m north west of Stantling Loan
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of seven
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 130m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Ten medieval shielings on north bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
