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 great places to visit near Brampton if you like hills.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Brampton if you like hiking areas.

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

There are a number of ancient sites near Brampton including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

There are a number of ruins near Brampton 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.

Old Mines to visit near Brampton include Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are great places to visit near Brampton if you like lakes.

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

Brampton's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

There are a number of mountains near Brampton including 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 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.

Historic Monuments to visit near Brampton include Fairy Steps.

The area around Brampton boasts some of the best caves including 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,

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Brampton.

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a several good islands in the area around Brampton like Piel Island.

Brampton History

There are some historic monuments around Brampton:

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