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.

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 Bridgefoot.

Villages to visit near Bridgefoot include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Bridgefoot features a number of interesting ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

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 are great places to visit near Bridgefoot if you like ruins.

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 Bridgefoot if you like old mines.

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.

Bridgefoot 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.

Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Bridgefoot.

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

Towns to visit near Bridgefoot include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Bridgefoot's best nearby mountains can be found at Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Bridgefoot boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

There are a several good historic buildings in the Bridgefoot area 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.

Bridgefoot's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Bridgefoot has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Bridgefoot include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

The area around Bridgefoot's best islands can be found at Piel Island.

Bridgefoot History

There are some historic monuments around Bridgefoot:

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