Farlam is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Farlam

There are great places to visit near Farlam 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.

Farlam has some unmissable hills nearby 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 great places to visit near Farlam if you like hiking areas.

There are a several good villages in the Farlam area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Farlam features a number of interesting 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.

Farlam has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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.

Farlam has some unmissable old mines nearby 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.

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

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

There are a number of lakes near Farlam including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

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

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Farlam if you like mountains.

Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Farlam.

The area around Farlam features a number of interesting historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

There are a number of historic monuments near to Farlam including Fairy Steps.

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

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

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

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

Farlam's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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

Farlam History

There are some historic monuments around Farlam:

• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
• Castle Hill
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Lanercost Bridge
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum from A6071 to The Cottage in the case of the Wall, and to the road to Oldwall, for the vallum, in wall miles 57, 58 and 59
• 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Roachburn Colliery
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks and the road to Garthside in wall miles 52, 53 and 54
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Boothby Roman fort
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56