Great Broughton is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Great Broughton postcode: CA13 0YN

Retail in Great Broughton

There are great places to visit near Great Broughton 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 some of Great Broughton best hills to visit near Great Broughton.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Great Broughton area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

There are a number of ancient sites near Great Broughton 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 Great Broughton features a number of interesting 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.

Great Broughton has some unmissable old mines nearby 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.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are some of Great Broughton best waterfalls to visit near Great Broughton.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Great Broughton including 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 Great Broughton including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

There are a number of woodlands near Great Broughton 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 great places to visit near Great Broughton if you like towns.

Great Broughton's best nearby mountains can be found at Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Great Broughton features a number of interesting castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

There are a number of historic buildings near Great Broughton 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.

Great Broughton is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Great Broughton has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Great Broughton best bluebell woods to visit near Great Broughton.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Great Broughton.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Great Broughton include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a number of airports near Great Broughton including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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

Great Broughton History

There are some historic monuments around Great Broughton:

• Round cairn on summit of Carling Knott
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Allonby saltpan
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• 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
• Cockermouth Castle: medieval enclosure castle and site of earlier motte and bailey castle
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• Large irregular stone circle and a round cairn on Dean Moor
• Round cairn 75m north east of summit of Carling Knott
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Wardhall Guards Medieval Settlement
• Tute Hill motte
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Settlement 25m SE of Gatra
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Netherhall
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast