Ewanrigg is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Ewanrigg postcode: CA15 8LG

Retail in Ewanrigg

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

There are a several good hiking areas in the Ewanrigg area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of villages near Ewanrigg including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Ewanrigg boasts some of the best ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Ruins to visit near Ewanrigg 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.

Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are great places to visit near Ewanrigg if you like old mines.

Ewanrigg has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

The area around Ewanrigg 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.

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

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

The area around Ewanrigg features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Ewanrigg has some unmissable mountains nearby like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Castles to visit near Ewanrigg include 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 Ewanrigg.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Ewanrigg like Fairy Steps.

There are a several good caves in the Ewanrigg area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Ewanrigg's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Ewanrigg.

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

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

Ewanrigg History

There are some historic monuments around Ewanrigg:

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