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 number of hiking areas near Great Broughton 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 some of Great Broughton best villages to visit near Great Broughton.

Great Broughton's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Ruins to visit near Great Broughton include 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's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

The area around Great Broughton features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

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.

Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Great Broughton.

Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are great places to visit near Great Broughton if you like woodlands.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are great places to visit near Great Broughton if you like towns.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Great Broughton if you like mountains.

Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Great Broughton.

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 some of Great Broughton best historic buildings to visit near Great Broughton.

Fairy Steps is one of Great Broughton's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Great Broughton.

The area around Great Broughton features a number of interesting caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

There are a several good bluebell woods in the Great Broughton area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

Places near Great Broughton feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Airports to visit near Great Broughton include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

The area close to Great Broughton boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

Great Broughton History

There are some historic monuments around Great Broughton:

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