Faugh is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Faugh postcode: CA8 9EN

Retail in Faugh

There are great places to visit near Faugh 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 Faugh features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

The area around Faugh boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

The area around Faugh 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.

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 are great places to visit near Faugh if you like ruins.

There are a number of old mines near Faugh 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.

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

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Faugh best rivers and streams to visit near Faugh.

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

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

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Faugh best towns to visit near Faugh.

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

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

Faugh'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.

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

Caves to visit near Faugh include Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Faugh has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Faugh if you like nature reserves.

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

There are a several good airports in the Faugh area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Faugh is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Faugh History

There are some historic monuments around Faugh:

• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• 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
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Castle Hill
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• 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
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Boothby Roman fort
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Broomrigg A: large irregular stone circle and associated stone alignment in Broomrigg Plantation, 820m south east of Street House
• Lanercost Bridge
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription