Retail in Butterwick
There are great places to visit near Butterwick 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.
Don't miss Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks's hills if visiting the area around Butterwick.
Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Butterwick best hiking areas to visit near Butterwick.
The area around Butterwick boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Butterwick has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
Butterwick 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.
The area around Butterwick boasts some of the best 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.
Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Butterwick.
River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Butterwick best rivers and streams to visit near Butterwick.
There are a several good lakes in the Butterwick area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Butterwick has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
There are a several good towns in the Butterwick area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
The area around Butterwick boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
The area around Butterwick boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
The area around Butterwick features a number of interesting 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 close to Butterwick boasts some of the best historic monuments including Fairy Steps.
There are a number of caves near Butterwick including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
The area around Butterwick features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
There are a number of nature reserves near to Butterwick including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Butterwick.
There are a several good airports in the Butterwick area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Butterwick if you like islands.
Butterwick History
There are some historic monuments around Butterwick:
- King Arthur's Round Table henge
- Round cairn west of White Raise
- Castlesteads multivallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Towtop Kirk early Christian enclosure
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
- Long barrow on Trainford Brow
- Selside Pike round cairn
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham Castle
- Stone bridge, Cawdale Beck
- Moated site and annexe east of Setterahpark Wood
- Round cairn 580m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones
- Two standing stones and a round cairn south of Crooklands
- Long cairn 370m ESE of Mossthorn Farm
- Little Round Table henge
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
- The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
- Roman marching camp 450yds (410m) NE of Brovacum
- Round cairn west of Riddingleys Top, Askham Fell
- Shap Stone Alignment
- Shap large regular stone circle
- Round cairn on Heughscar Hill
- Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
- Slight univallate hillfort in Scarside Plantation
- Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
- Two round cairns 415m and 420m NNE of The Cockpit, Moor Divock
- Askham Fell stone alignment
- The Cockpit stone circle and seven adjacent clearance cairns, Moor Divock
- Four funerary cairns and a surrounding cairnfield on Threepow Raise
- Strickland's Pele Tower and Penrith Castle
- Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield
- Round cairn west of enclosure on Four Stones Hill
- Romano-British settlement and regular aggregate field system north of Yanwath Wood
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 335m north of the Cop Stone
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 270m north of The Cop Stone
- Standing stone 180m NNE of Skirsgill
- Clifton Hall tower
- Round cairn 490m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard
- Round cairn 50m north east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Keld Chapel
- Eamont Bridge
- Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Mayburgh henge
- The Giant's Grave - Two Anglian cross-shafts and four hogback stones in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Moated site of Dacre Castle
- Round cairn 680m ENE of Dalefoot
- Linear stone bank on Askham Fell
- Romano-British farmstead 800m north-east of High House
- Round cairn 285m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- The Giant's Thumb - Anglian high cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Round cairn on High Raise
- Small stone circle on Swarth Fell
- Romano-British settlement at Cragside Wood
- The Countess Pillar
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham Castle
- 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
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common
- White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Dunmallard small multivallate hillfort
- Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
- Round cairn 475m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
- Round cairn north of Four Stones Hill
- Enclosure containing four clearance cairns and a stone bank west of Four Stones Hill
- Round cairn 515m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Romano-British farmstead at Haweswater
- Round cairn on Burn Banks
- Buck Park deerpound
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 550ft (170m) S of Widewath
- Bowl barrow 350m north east of The Wreay
- Castle Crag slight univallate hillfort
- Round cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn
- Moated site and annexe south of Gale Bay
- Settlement 100yds (90m) SE of Sceugh Farm
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone
- Maiden Castle univallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Round cairn 280m south-east of The Cockpit stone circle
- Bowl barrow 850m WSW of Yanwath Woodhouse Farm
- Settlement SW of Naddle Bridge
- Sewborrans standing stone 400m south west of Sewborwens
- Round cairn 660m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Two standing stones north-west of Four Stones Hill
- Ring cairn east of Threepow Raise
- Bowl barrow 80m east of Scarside Plantation
- Round cairn on White Raise
- Skirsgill Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement, Romano-British farmstead, and Romano-British regular aggregate field system
