Crosby Villa is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Crosby Villa postcode: CA15 6TL

Retail in Crosby Villa

There are great places to visit near Crosby Villa 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 some of Crosby Villa best hills to visit near Crosby Villa.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Crosby Villa area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a several good villages in the Crosby Villa area like 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 Crosby Villa if you like ancient sites.

There are a several good ruins in the Crosby Villa 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.

Crosby Villa'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 Crosby Villa boasts some of the best 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 Crosby Villa area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

There are a several good lakes in the Crosby Villa area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Crosby Villa's best nearby woodlands can be found at Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a number of towns near Crosby Villa including 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 Crosby Villa best mountains to visit near Crosby Villa.

Crosby Villa has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

There are a several good historic buildings in the Crosby Villa area 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.

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

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

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Crosby Villa best bluebell woods to visit near Crosby Villa.

Nature Reserves to visit near Crosby Villa include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Crosby Villa like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Crosby Villa's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Places near Crosby Villa feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.

Crosby Villa History

There are some historic monuments around Crosby Villa:

• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Tute Hill motte
• Romano-British farmstead 250m ENE of Belmont House
• Oval enclosure 120m N of Brownrigg Hall
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 1/2 mile (800m) S of Wolsty
• Enclosure 130m SSE of Old Mawbray
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Netherhall
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Cockermouth Castle: medieval enclosure castle and site of earlier motte and bailey castle
• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• Dubmill Point milefortlet 17, 560m WNW of Hill House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Westnewton Castle
• Enclosure 105m SE of Old Mawbray
• Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, 680m WSW of Hailforth, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Wardhall Guards Medieval Settlement
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Settlement 450m east of Eweclose
• Bank Mill tower 15a, 250m north west of Belmont House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Beckfoot Roman fort
• Allonby saltpan
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 125m SE of Old Mawbray
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge