Burnrigg is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Burnrigg postcode: CA8 9BH

Retail in Burnrigg

There are great places to visit near Burnrigg 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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are great places to visit near Burnrigg if you like hills.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Burnrigg if you like hiking areas.

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

There are a several good ancient sites in the Burnrigg area like 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 some of Burnrigg best ruins to visit near Burnrigg.

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 Burnrigg if you like old mines.

Burnrigg'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.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are great places to visit near Burnrigg if you like rivers and streams.

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

Burnrigg has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are great places to visit near Burnrigg if you like towns.

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

Castles to visit near Burnrigg include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Don't miss Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct's historic buildings if visiting the area around Burnrigg.

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

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

Bluebell Woods to visit near Burnrigg include Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Burnrigg like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Burnrigg if you like airports.

Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Burnrigg.

Burnrigg History

There are some historic monuments around Burnrigg:

• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Castle Hill
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Park House Roman fort
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum from A6071 to The Cottage in the case of the Wall, and to the road to Oldwall, for the vallum, in wall miles 57, 58 and 59