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.

There are a several good hills in the Farlam area like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Hiking Areas to visit near Farlam include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Farlam boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

There are a number of ancient sites near Farlam 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.

There are a number of old mines near Farlam including Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Waterfalls to visit near Farlam include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

The area around Farlam features a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Lakes to visit near Farlam include 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 Farlam best woodlands to visit near Farlam.

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

Mountains to visit near Farlam include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Castles to visit near Farlam 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 Farlam.

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

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

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

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Farlam like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Farlam if you like disused railway lines.

The area around Farlam features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Islands to visit near Farlam include Piel Island.

Farlam History

There are some historic monuments around Farlam:

• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Boothby Roman fort
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Roachburn Colliery
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• 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
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Lanercost Bridge
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• 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 post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Tower Tye ringwork
• 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
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• 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
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Castle Hill
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall