Denton Mill is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Denton Mill postcode: CA8 2QU

Retail in Denton Mill

There are great places to visit near Denton Mill 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.

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks's hills if visiting the area around Denton Mill.

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell's hiking areas if visiting the area around Denton Mill.

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

Don't miss Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Denton Mill.

Ruins to visit near Denton Mill include 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.

Denton Mill has some unmissable old mines nearby 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.

Denton Mill's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Denton Mill has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby 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 great places to visit near Denton Mill if you like lakes.

There are a number of woodlands near Denton Mill including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Don't miss Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen's towns if visiting the area around Denton Mill.

Denton Mill's best nearby mountains can be found at Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Castles to visit near Denton Mill include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Historic Buildings to visit near Denton Mill include Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Denton Mill is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

The area around Denton Mill features a number of interesting caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

The area around Denton Mill features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Places near Denton Mill feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Denton Mill if you like disused railway lines.

There are a several good airports in the Denton Mill area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Denton Mill.

Denton Mill History

There are some historic monuments around Denton Mill:

• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Roachburn Colliery
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Willowford Roman temporary camp
• Lanercost Bridge
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks and the road to Garthside in wall miles 52, 53 and 54
• The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Group of shielings, 100m north of Tinkler Crags
• Throp Roman fortlet
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
• Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
• Towerbrae round cairn
• Boothby Roman fort
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Castle Hill
• 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• Shieling, 110m south of Bull Crag
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Shieling 150m south of Tinkler Crags
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road