Flimby is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Flimby postcode: CA15 8QX

Retail in Flimby

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

Flimby has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

The area around Flimby boasts some of the best 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.

The area around Flimby boasts some of the best ruins including 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.

The area around Flimby boasts some of the best old mines 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.

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 Flimby.

The area around Flimby 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.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are great places to visit near Flimby if you like lakes.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Flimby.

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

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

Flimby's best nearby castles can be found at Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are great places to visit near Flimby if you like historic buildings.

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

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Flimby.

The area around Flimby features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

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

The area around Flimby boasts some of the best airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Places near Flimby feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.

Flimby History

There are some historic monuments around Flimby:

• Netherhall
• Defended enclosure at Salterbeck
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Jane Pit, a 19th century coal mine adjacent to the Sports Ground, Mossbay
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Hayes Castle
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• Burrow Walls Roman fort
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified house
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Allonby saltpan
• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast