Brampton is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Brampton

There are great places to visit near Brampton 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 some of Brampton best hills to visit near Brampton.

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

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Brampton area 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 Brampton features a number of interesting 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.

There are a several good old mines in the Brampton area 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.

There are a number of waterfalls near Brampton including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Brampton has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Brampton boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Mountains to visit near Brampton include 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 some of Brampton best castles to visit near Brampton.

Brampton's best nearby historic buildings can be found at 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 Brampton's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Brampton.

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Brampton if you like nature reserves.

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Brampton like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Brampton.

Brampton is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Brampton History

There are some historic monuments around Brampton:

• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• 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
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Castle Hill
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• 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
• Boothby Roman fort
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• 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
• Lanercost Bridge
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west