Retail in Bewcastle
There are great places to visit near Bewcastle 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.
Hills to visit near Bewcastle include 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 Bewcastle if you like hiking areas.
Bewcastle has some unmissable villages nearby like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Bewcastle has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like 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 Bewcastle 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.
Bewcastle has some unmissable old mines nearby like Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.
Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are great places to visit near Bewcastle if you like waterfalls.
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 Bewcastle.
There are a number of lakes near Bewcastle including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
The area around Bewcastle boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
There are a several good towns in the Bewcastle area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Bewcastle has some unmissable mountains nearby like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Bewcastle.
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 great places to visit near Bewcastle if you like historic buildings.
There are a number of historic monuments near to Bewcastle including Fairy Steps.
There are a several good caves in the Bewcastle area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Bewcastle best bluebell woods to visit near Bewcastle.
Places near Bewcastle feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
The area close to Bewcastle boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
The area around Bewcastle features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Bewcastle.
Bewcastle History
There are some historic monuments around Bewcastle:
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Shiel Knowe round cairn
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Ten medieval shielings on north bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Two medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne 230m north east of confluence with little Hare Grain
- Horse Head medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 50m west of confluence of Gosling Sike and Horsehead Grain
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of seven
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 410m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- 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
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Underground Launcher Facility
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- Towerbrae round cairn
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Stantling Loan medieval shieling
- Two medieval shielings 30m north west of Stantling Loan on Greyfell Common
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 310m north west of Stantling Loan
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Four medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 130m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- Hazel Gill shieling
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- 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
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Unfinished high cross shaft on Long Bar 580m north east of Todcrag Loch
- Shieling 210m north of Irthing Head
- Low Grains bastle
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Crew Castle bastle
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- 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
- White Lyne round cairn 60m NNW of confluence of Gate Grain and White Lyne
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 230m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
- Willowford Roman temporary camp
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- 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
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
