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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are great places to visit near Farlam if you like hills.

There are a number of hiking areas near Farlam including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Farlam if you like villages.

Farlam has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like 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 several good old mines in the Farlam area 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.

There are a several good waterfalls in the Farlam area like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Farlam include 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.

The area around Farlam features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a several good towns in the Farlam area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Farlam.

The area around Farlam boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

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.

Caves to visit near Farlam include 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.

Places near Farlam feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around Farlam's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

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

Farlam History

There are some historic monuments around Farlam:

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