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.
The area around Butterwick features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
The area around Butterwick boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
The area around Butterwick features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Don't miss Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Butterwick.
There are a several good ruins in the Butterwick 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.
Butterwick'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.
The area around Butterwick features a number of interesting waterfalls including 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 Butterwick area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
The area around Butterwick features a number of interesting lakes including 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.
Towns to visit near Butterwick include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Butterwick best mountains to visit near Butterwick.
Castles to visit near Butterwick include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Butterwick has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like 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.
Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Butterwick.
There are a several good bluebell woods in the Butterwick area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
The area around Butterwick's best nature reserves can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Disused Railway Lines to visit near Butterwick include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Butterwick's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
There are a several good islands in the area around Butterwick like Piel Island.
Butterwick History
There are some historic monuments around Butterwick:
- Eamont Bridge
- Ring cairn east of Threepow Raise
- Round cairn 680m ENE of Dalefoot
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham Castle
- Skirsgill Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement, Romano-British farmstead, and Romano-British regular aggregate field system
- Round cairn on White Raise
- Round cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn
- Bowl barrow 350m north east of The Wreay
- King Arthur's Round Table henge
- Round cairn 490m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Linear stone bank on Askham Fell
- Round cairn west of Riddingleys Top, Askham Fell
- Round cairn on High Raise
- Little Round Table henge
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
- Round cairn west of White Raise
- Keld Chapel
- Romano-British settlement at Cragside Wood
- Melkinthorpe medieval settlement, part of its associated open field system and the site of Melkinthorpe Hall
- Round cairn 580m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- The Countess Pillar
- Slight univallate hillfort in Scarside Plantation
- Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 250yds (230m) SSW of Widewath
- Round cairn 515m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Dunmallard small multivallate hillfort
- The Giant's Thumb - Anglian high cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Moated site and annexe east of Setterahpark Wood
- Standing stone 180m NNE of Skirsgill
- Round cairn west of enclosure on Four Stones Hill
- Round cairn on Heughscar Hill
- The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
- Castle Crag slight univallate hillfort
- Romano-British farmstead 800m north-east of High House
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone
- Round cairn 50m north east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Castlesteads multivallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Askham Fell stone alignment
- The Cockpit stone circle and seven adjacent clearance cairns, Moor Divock
- Stone bridge, Cawdale Beck
- Settlement 100yds (90m) SE of Sceugh Farm
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 270m north of The Cop Stone
- Round cairn 475m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Four funerary cairns and a surrounding cairnfield on Threepow Raise
- Romano-British settlement and regular aggregate field system north of Yanwath Wood
- The Giant's Grave - Two Anglian cross-shafts and four hogback stones in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Roman marching camp 450yds (410m) NE of Brovacum
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones
- Moated site of Dacre Castle
- Round cairn 280m south-east of The Cockpit stone circle
- Shap Stone Alignment
- Round cairn 660m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham Castle
- Round cairn on Burn Banks
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
- Long barrow on Trainford Brow
- Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
- Mayburgh henge
- Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
- Maiden Castle univallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Round cairn 285m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Strickland's Pele Tower and Penrith Castle
- Clifton Hall tower
- Settlement SW of Naddle Bridge
- Enclosure containing four clearance cairns and a stone bank west of Four Stones Hill
- Sewborrans standing stone 400m south west of Sewborwens
- Two standing stones north-west of Four Stones Hill
- Bowl barrow 850m WSW of Yanwath Woodhouse Farm
- St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard
- Shap large regular stone circle
- Towtop Kirk early Christian enclosure
- White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 550ft (170m) S of Widewath
- Bowl barrow 80m east of Scarside Plantation
- Round cairn north of Four Stones Hill
- Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
- Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Long cairn 370m ESE of Mossthorn Farm
- Two standing stones and a round cairn south of Crooklands
- Small stone circle on Swarth Fell
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
- Romano-British farmstead at Haweswater
- Two round cairns 415m and 420m NNE of The Cockpit, Moor Divock
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 335m north of the Cop Stone
- Buck Park deerpound
- Moated site and annexe south of Gale Bay
- Selside Pike round cairn
