Ellenborough is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Ellenborough postcode: CA15 7QH

Retail in Ellenborough

There are great places to visit near Ellenborough 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.

Ellenborough's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Ellenborough's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

There are a several good ancient sites in the Ellenborough area like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Ellenborough'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.

Ellenborough's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are great places to visit near Ellenborough if you like waterfalls.

Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Ellenborough.

Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Ellenborough.

Ellenborough has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Ellenborough has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

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

Ellenborough's best nearby castles can be found at Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Ellenborough's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

The area around Ellenborough's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.

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

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

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

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

Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Ellenborough.

There are a several good islands in the area around Ellenborough like Piel Island.

Ellenborough History

There are some historic monuments around Ellenborough:

• Enclosure 125m SE of Old Mawbray
• Oval enclosure 120m N of Brownrigg Hall
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Netherhall
• Allonby saltpan
• Defended enclosure at Salterbeck
• Jane Pit, a 19th century coal mine adjacent to the Sports Ground, Mossbay
• Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified house
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Enclosure 130m SSE of Old Mawbray
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Burrow Walls Roman fort
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 105m SE of Old Mawbray
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Dubmill Point milefortlet 17, 560m WNW of Hill House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, 680m WSW of Hailforth, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge