Bridgefoot is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Bridgefoot postcode: CA14 1YF

Retail in Bridgefoot

There are great places to visit near Bridgefoot 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.

There are a several good hills in the Bridgefoot area like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Bridgefoot's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Bridgefoot if you like villages.

Bridgefoot 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.

Bridgefoot has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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 number of old mines near Bridgefoot including 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 Bridgefoot best waterfalls to visit near Bridgefoot.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Bridgefoot include River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Lakes to visit near Bridgefoot include Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are great places to visit near Bridgefoot if you like woodlands.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Bridgefoot best towns to visit near Bridgefoot.

Mountains to visit near Bridgefoot include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

Bridgefoot has some unmissable historic buildings nearby 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.

Fairy Steps is one of Bridgefoot's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Bridgefoot.

The area around Bridgefoot boasts some of the best caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

There are a number of bluebell woods near Bridgefoot including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

The area around Bridgefoot's best nature reserves can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

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

Bridgefoot is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Bridgefoot History

There are some historic monuments around Bridgefoot:

• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge
• Burrow Walls Roman fort
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Netherhall
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Settlement 25m SE of Gatra
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Round cairn 75m north east of summit of Carling Knott
• Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified house
• Hayes Castle
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Large irregular stone circle and a round cairn on Dean Moor
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Jane Pit, a 19th century coal mine adjacent to the Sports Ground, Mossbay
• Defended enclosure at Salterbeck
• Allonby saltpan
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• Round cairn on summit of Carling Knott
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement