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 number of hills near Bridgefoot including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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

There are a several good villages in the Bridgefoot area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

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.

The area around Bridgefoot 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.

Old Mines to visit near Bridgefoot 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.

Waterfalls to visit near Bridgefoot include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Bridgefoot best rivers and streams to visit near Bridgefoot.

Bridgefoot has some unmissable lakes nearby like 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 some of Bridgefoot best woodlands to visit near Bridgefoot.

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

The area around Bridgefoot features a number of interesting mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Castles to visit near Bridgefoot include 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.

Places near Bridgefoot feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

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

Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Bridgefoot.

Places near Bridgefoot feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Bridgefoot if you like disused railway lines.

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

Islands to visit near Bridgefoot include Piel Island.

Bridgefoot History

There are some historic monuments around Bridgefoot:

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