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