Dovenby is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Dovenby postcode: CA13 0PJ

Retail in Dovenby

There are great places to visit near Dovenby 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.

There are a several good hills in the Dovenby area like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Dovenby best hiking areas to visit near Dovenby.

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

Ancient Sites to visit near Dovenby include 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 number of ruins near Dovenby 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.

Old Mines to visit near Dovenby include Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Dovenby has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like 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 Dovenby 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 Dovenby area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

There are a several good woodlands in the Dovenby area like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a number of towns near Dovenby including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

There are a number of mountains near Dovenby including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are great places to visit near Dovenby if you like castles.

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 some of Dovenby best historic buildings to visit near Dovenby.

The area close to Dovenby boasts some of the best historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

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

There are a number of bluebell woods near Dovenby including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

There are a number of nature reserves near to Dovenby including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Dovenby include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Dovenby if you like airports.

The area close to Dovenby boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

Dovenby History

There are some historic monuments around Dovenby:

• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge
• Netherhall
• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Settlement 450m east of Eweclose
• Wardhall Guards Medieval Settlement
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, 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
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Westnewton Castle
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Allonby saltpan
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Cockermouth Castle: medieval enclosure castle and site of earlier motte and bailey castle
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Tute Hill motte
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg