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 features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Cumwhinton has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Cumwhinton's best nearby villages can be found at 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.

The area around Cumwhinton features a number of interesting ruins including 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.

The area around Cumwhinton features a number of interesting old mines 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.

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 Cumwhinton.

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.

There are a number of lakes near Cumwhinton 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.

The area around Cumwhinton boasts some of the best towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

There are a several good mountains in the Cumwhinton area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Cumwhinton features a number of interesting castles including 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 Cumwhinton if you like historic buildings.

Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Cumwhinton if you like historic monuments.

There are a several good caves in the Cumwhinton area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Cumwhinton if you like nature reserves.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Cumwhinton's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Cumwhinton.

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

Piel Island is one of Cumwhinton's best, nearby islands to visit in Cumwhinton.

Cumwhinton History

There are some historic monuments around Cumwhinton:

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