Great Corby is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Great Corby postcode: CA4 8LT

Retail in Great Corby

There are great places to visit near Great Corby 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.

Great Corby has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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

Villages to visit near Great Corby include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Great Corby has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like 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 Corby 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 Corby'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.

There are a several good waterfalls in the Great Corby area like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Great Corby has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

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

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

Great Corby has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Great Corby has some unmissable mountains nearby like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

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 Corby.

Historic Buildings to visit near Great Corby include Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Historic Monuments to visit near Great Corby include Fairy Steps.

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

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

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

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Great Corby.

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

There are a number of islands near to Great Corby including Piel Island.

Great Corby History

There are some historic monuments around Great Corby:

• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Park House Roman fort
• Castle Hill
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• 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
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon