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.

Drumburgh has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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 Drumburgh.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Drumburgh.

Drumburgh's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

The area around Drumburgh boasts some of the best 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.

Old Mines to visit near Drumburgh 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.

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 Drumburgh.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Drumburgh including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Drumburgh features a number of interesting lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are some of Drumburgh best woodlands to visit near Drumburgh.

Drumburgh's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

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

There are a several good castles in the Drumburgh area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

There are a several good historic buildings in the Drumburgh area like Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Drumburgh is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Drumburgh has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Drumburgh if you like bluebell woods.

The area close to Drumburgh boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Drumburgh like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Drumburgh has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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

Drumburgh History

There are some historic monuments around Drumburgh:

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