Brisco is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Brisco postcode: CA4 0QS

Retail in Brisco

There are great places to visit near Brisco 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.

The area around Brisco boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Brisco area like 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 Brisco if you like villages.

The area around Brisco boasts some of the best 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.

Brisco 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.

Brisco has some unmissable old mines nearby like 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 Brisco include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

The area around Brisco boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

There are a number of lakes near Brisco including 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 Brisco if you like woodlands.

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

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Brisco best mountains to visit near Brisco.

There are a several good castles in the Brisco area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Brisco 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.

Historic Monuments to visit near Brisco include Fairy Steps.

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

The area around Brisco boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

The area close to Brisco boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Brisco is near some unmissable disused railway lines like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Brisco best airports to visit near Brisco.

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

Brisco History

There are some historic monuments around Brisco:

• Rockcliffe Cross
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundaries north of the properties on Whiteclosegate and the field boundary west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Park House Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Davidson's Banks and road to Grinsdale and vallum between Davidson's Banks and dismantled railway in wall miles 67 and 68
• Petteril Green Romano-British farmstead, associated field system and two trackways
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway north of Knockupworth Cottage and the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill in wall mile 67
• City wall, NE side
• Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Polygonal prehistoric enclosure and associated field system at Petterilbank Cottages
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill and the field boundary south east of Mill Beck in wall mile 68
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Bishop's Dyke
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium
• Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63