Drumburgh is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Drumburgh postcode: CA7 5DP

Retail in Drumburgh

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

The area around Drumburgh features a number of interesting hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Drumburgh features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

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 Drumburgh.

Drumburgh's best nearby ruins can be found at 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.

There are a several good old mines in the Drumburgh 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.

There are a number of waterfalls near Drumburgh including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

The area around Drumburgh boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Drumburgh has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Drumburgh.

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

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

Don't miss Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct's historic buildings if visiting the area around Drumburgh.

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

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

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

Nature Reserves to visit near Drumburgh include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Drumburgh is near some unmissable disused railway lines like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

There are a number of airports near Drumburgh including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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

Drumburgh History

There are some historic monuments around Drumburgh:

• Lochmaben Stone,standing stone & stone Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM3378
• Settlement enclosures, 800m north west of Farhill
• Prehistoric enclosure and trackway, and a Romano-British farmstead WNW of Fingland
• Hadrian's Wall Vallum between West End, Burgh by Sands and the eastern boundary of Dykesfield
• Burnbrae, enclosure 270m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12189
• Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79
• Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Havens
• Hadrian's Wall between Fulwood House at Burgh by Sands and Burgh Marsh in wall miles 72 and 73
• Roman fort and watch tower, 800m SSW of Amberfield
• The Bracken, enclosed settlement and droveway 370m WSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM11994
• Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall between Burgh Marsh and Westfield House in wall miles 76 and 77
• Redkirkmill, enclosure 50m WSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12086
• Kirkbride Roman fort, part of associated vicus and length of Roman road around, 370m south east of Whitrigg Bridge
• Calvertsholm, settlement 110m N of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12128
• Woodfield, enclosure 295m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12029
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between east side of road at Burgh Head, and boundary south of Ash Tree Square, Burgh-by-Sands in wall miles 71 and 72
• Woodhead,enclosure 200m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM4090
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercourse 400m south east of Glasson and the access road to Glendale caravan park in wall miles 76 and 77
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track south of Kirkland House and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79
• Gleningle, enclosure 80m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM12001
• Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House, Port Carlisle in wall mile 78
• Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth, Westfield, and the dismantled railway in wall mile 77
• The Roman fort and associated civil settlement and a medieval tower house at Bowness on Solway at the west end of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 80
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the access road to Glendale caravan park and the track south of Kirkland House in wall miles 77 and 78
• Calvertsholm Cottages, cairn 320m NNW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM11950
• Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled railway and the access road to Glendale caravan park in wall mile 77
• Biglands House (milefortlet 1) and associated parallel ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Whinnyrig, enclosed settlement, droveway and field system 130m ENE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM11995
• Calvertsholm Cottages, cairn 315m WNW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM11947
• Broats, enclosure 250m N of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM4087
• Westhills, altar stone 35m N of Roman: altar SM11980
• Down Hall moated site