Boltonfellend is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Boltonfellend postcode: CA6 6HW

Retail in Boltonfellend

There are great places to visit near Boltonfellend 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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are great places to visit near Boltonfellend if you like hills.

The area around Boltonfellend features a number of interesting hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Boltonfellend'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 great places to visit near Boltonfellend if you like ancient sites.

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 Boltonfellend.

Boltonfellend 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 some of Boltonfellend best waterfalls to visit near Boltonfellend.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Boltonfellend including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Boltonfellend features a number of interesting lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

Towns to visit near Boltonfellend include 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 Boltonfellend if you like mountains.

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Boltonfellend best castles to visit near Boltonfellend.

There are a several good historic buildings in the Boltonfellend 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.

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

There are a several good caves in the Boltonfellend area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Boltonfellend's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Nature Reserves to visit near Boltonfellend include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a number of disused railway lines near to Boltonfellend including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Airports to visit near Boltonfellend include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a number of islands near to Boltonfellend including Piel Island.

Boltonfellend History

There are some historic monuments around Boltonfellend:

• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Castle Hill
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• 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
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate 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
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• 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 road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57