Burnbanks is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Burnbanks postcode: CA10 2RW

Retail in Burnbanks

There are great places to visit near Burnbanks 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.

Burnbanks has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Burnbanks area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Burnbanks's best nearby villages can be found at Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Burnbanks 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.

Don't miss 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's ruins if visiting the area around Burnbanks.

Old Mines to visit near Burnbanks 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 Burnbanks boasts some of the best waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Burnbanks 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 some of Burnbanks best lakes to visit near Burnbanks.

Burnbanks's best nearby woodlands can be found at Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a number of towns near Burnbanks including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

The area around Burnbanks 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.

The area around Burnbanks 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 number of historic buildings near Burnbanks including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Don't miss Fairy Steps's historic monuments if visiting the area around Burnbanks.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Burnbanks if you like caves.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Burnbanks if you like bluebell woods.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Burnbanks's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Burnbanks.

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Burnbanks like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Burnbanks if you like islands.

Burnbanks History

There are some historic monuments around Burnbanks:

• Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
• Round cairn on Burn Banks
• Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
• Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
• Round cairn 475m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
• Two standing stones and a round cairn south of Crooklands
• Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones
• Round cairn west of White Raise
• Round cairn 680m ENE of Dalefoot
• Round cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn
• Dunmallard small multivallate hillfort
• Two round cairns 415m and 420m NNE of The Cockpit, Moor Divock
• Skirsgill Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement, Romano-British farmstead, and Romano-British regular aggregate field system
• White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
• Stone bridge, Cawdale Beck
• Bowl barrow 850m WSW of Yanwath Woodhouse Farm
• Bridge over Heltondale Beck 250yds (230m) SSW of Widewath
• Long barrow on Trainford Brow
• Round cairn on High Raise
• Round cairn 660m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
• Round cairn 490m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
• Castlesteads multivallate prehistoric defended enclosure
• Round cairn west of Riddingleys Top, Askham Fell
• Askham Fell stone alignment
• Two standing stones north-west of Four Stones Hill
• Moated site of Dacre Castle
• Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
• Buck Park deerpound
• Round cairn on Heughscar Hill
• Round cairn on Askham Fell, 335m north of the Cop Stone
• Bowl barrow 80m east of Scarside Plantation
• Shap large regular stone circle
• Melkinthorpe medieval settlement, part of its associated open field system and the site of Melkinthorpe Hall
• Keld Chapel
• Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
• Round cairn 285m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
• Shap Stone Alignment
• Ring cairn on Knipescar Common
• Moated site and annexe east of Setterahpark Wood
• Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
• Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone
• Ring cairn east of Threepow Raise
• Moated site and annexe south of Gale Bay
• Castle Crag slight univallate hillfort
• Round cairn 50m north east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
• Romano-British settlement at Cragside Wood
• Four funerary cairns and a surrounding cairnfield on Threepow Raise
• Round cairn 580m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
• Selside Pike round cairn
• Maiden Castle univallate prehistoric defended enclosure
• Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
• Linear stone bank on Askham Fell
• Small stone circle on Swarth Fell
• Bridge over Heltondale Beck 550ft (170m) S of Widewath
• Enclosure containing four clearance cairns and a stone bank west of Four Stones Hill
• Round cairn west of enclosure on Four Stones Hill
• Round cairn 280m south-east of The Cockpit stone circle
• The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
• Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement and Romano-British farmstead north west of Tongue House Barn.
• Round cairn 515m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
• Romano-British farmstead 800m north-east of High House
• Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
• Towtop Kirk early Christian enclosure
• Romano-British farmstead at Haweswater
• Round cairn north of Four Stones Hill
• Romano-British settlement and regular aggregate field system north of Yanwath Wood
• The Cockpit stone circle and seven adjacent clearance cairns, Moor Divock
• Round cairn on White Raise
• Settlement SW of Naddle Bridge
• Slight univallate hillfort in Scarside Plantation
• Round cairn on Askham Fell, 270m north of The Cop Stone