Cotehill is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Cotehill postcode: CA4 0EE

Retail in Cotehill

There are great places to visit near Cotehill 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 Cotehill boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Cotehill's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of villages near Cotehill 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 Cotehill if you like ancient sites.

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 Cotehill best ruins to visit near Cotehill.

There are a number of old mines near Cotehill 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.

Waterfalls to visit near Cotehill include 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 Cotehill area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are some of Cotehill best lakes to visit near Cotehill.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Cotehill.

Towns to visit near Cotehill 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 Cotehill best mountains to visit near Cotehill.

There are a several good castles in the Cotehill area like 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 Cotehill.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Cotehill like Fairy Steps.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Cotehill if you like caves.

Cotehill's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

The area close to Cotehill boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Cotehill has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Cotehill if you like islands.

Cotehill History

There are some historic monuments around Cotehill:

• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Castle Hill
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Village settlement and circular enclosure on Lazonby Fell
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundaries north of the properties on Whiteclosegate and the field boundary west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Roman camp 200m south west of Knowe Farm
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Petteril Green Romano-British farmstead, associated field system and two trackways
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Polygonal prehistoric enclosure and associated field system at Petterilbank Cottages
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Park House Roman fort