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.

Hiking Areas to visit near Burnbanks include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Burnbanks boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Burnbanks if you like ancient sites.

Ruins to visit near Burnbanks include 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.

The area around Burnbanks features a number of interesting old mines including Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

There are a several good waterfalls in the Burnbanks area like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Burnbanks.

There are a number of lakes near Burnbanks including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Woodlands to visit near Burnbanks include Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Burnbanks has some unmissable towns nearby like 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.

The area around Burnbanks boasts some of the best historic buildings 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.

The area around Burnbanks's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.

Burnbanks has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

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

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

Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Burnbanks.

Islands to visit near Burnbanks include Piel Island.

Burnbanks History

There are some historic monuments around Burnbanks:

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