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.

There are a number of hills near Burnbanks 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 Burnbanks.

The area around Burnbanks features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Burnbanks area like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

There are a several good ruins in the Burnbanks area 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.

Burnbanks's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Burnbanks's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the Burnbanks area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Lakes to visit near Burnbanks 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 some of Burnbanks best woodlands to visit near Burnbanks.

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

Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Burnbanks.

Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Burnbanks.

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are some of Burnbanks best historic buildings to visit near Burnbanks.

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

Caves to visit near Burnbanks include Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Burnbanks if you like nature reserves.

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

There are a several good airports in the Burnbanks area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a several good islands in the area around Burnbanks like Piel Island.

Burnbanks History

There are some historic monuments around Burnbanks:

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