Crosscanonby is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Crosscanonby

There are great places to visit near Crosscanonby 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.

Crosscanonby's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Crosscanonby if you like villages.

There are a number of ancient sites near Crosscanonby including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

There are a several good ruins in the Crosscanonby 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.

Don't miss Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry's old mines if visiting the area around Crosscanonby.

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 Crosscanonby.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the Crosscanonby area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

There are a number of lakes near Crosscanonby including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Crosscanonby has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are great places to visit near Crosscanonby if you like towns.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Crosscanonby if you like mountains.

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

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are great places to visit near Crosscanonby if you like historic buildings.

Fairy Steps is one of Crosscanonby's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Crosscanonby.

There are a number of caves near Crosscanonby including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

The area around Crosscanonby boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Crosscanonby's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Crosscanonby.

The area close to Crosscanonby boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around Crosscanonby features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Islands to visit near Crosscanonby include Piel Island.

Crosscanonby History

There are some historic monuments around Crosscanonby:

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