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.

Brampton has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell's hiking areas if visiting the area around Brampton.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are some of Brampton best villages to visit near Brampton.

Brampton 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.

Ruins to visit near Brampton include 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 great places to visit near Brampton if you like old mines.

There are a several good waterfalls in the Brampton 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 Brampton.

Brampton's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Brampton has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Towns to visit near Brampton 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 Brampton if you like mountains.

Brampton's best nearby castles can be found at Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Historic Buildings to visit near Brampton include 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.

Brampton has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

There are a several good bluebell woods in the Brampton area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Brampton is near some unmissable nature reserves like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

The area close to Brampton boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Brampton has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Piel Island is one of Brampton's best, nearby islands to visit in Brampton.

Brampton History

There are some historic monuments around Brampton:

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