Cumwhinton is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Cumwhinton postcode: CA4 8DH

Retail in Cumwhinton

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

The area around Cumwhinton boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Cumwhinton has some unmissable villages nearby 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 Cumwhinton 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 great places to visit near Cumwhinton if you like ruins.

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

The area around Cumwhinton boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Cumwhinton'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 Cumwhinton area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

The area around Cumwhinton boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Cumwhinton.

The area around Cumwhinton boasts some of the best historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Don't miss Fairy Steps's historic monuments if visiting the area around Cumwhinton.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Cumwhinton best caves to visit near Cumwhinton.

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

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Cumwhinton like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Cumwhinton best airports to visit near Cumwhinton.

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

Cumwhinton History

There are some historic monuments around Cumwhinton:

• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• 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
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Petteril Green Romano-British farmstead, associated field system and two trackways
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• City wall, NE side
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Park House Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Castle Hill
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Polygonal prehistoric enclosure and associated field system at Petterilbank Cottages
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum from A6071 to The Cottage in the case of the Wall, and to the road to Oldwall, for the vallum, in wall miles 57, 58 and 59
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium