Fenton is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Fenton postcode: CA8 9JZ

Retail in Fenton

There are great places to visit near Fenton 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 Fenton if you like hills.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Fenton if you like hiking areas.

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

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Fenton if you like ancient sites.

Fenton's best nearby ruins can be found at 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 Fenton 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.

Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Fenton.

Fenton's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Fenton has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Fenton's best nearby woodlands can be found at Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Fenton's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

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

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Fenton best castles to visit near Fenton.

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 Fenton.

Places near Fenton feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

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

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Fenton's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Fenton.

The area close to Fenton boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Fenton if you like airports.

Islands to visit near Fenton include Piel Island.

Fenton History

There are some historic monuments around Fenton:

• Castle Hill
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Tower Tye ringwork
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Boothby Roman fort
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• 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
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Lanercost Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Park House Roman fort
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House
• 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
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Broomrigg A: large irregular stone circle and associated stone alignment in Broomrigg Plantation, 820m south east of Street House
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House