Hallbankgate is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Hallbankgate postcode: CA8 2NL

Retail in Hallbankgate

There are great places to visit near Hallbankgate 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.

The area around Hallbankgate boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

The area around Hallbankgate boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Hallbankgate.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Hallbankgate area like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Hallbankgate'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.

The area around Hallbankgate features a number of interesting 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.

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

Hallbankgate'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.

The area around Hallbankgate features a number of interesting lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

There are a several good towns in the Hallbankgate area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

The area around Hallbankgate boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

There are a several good historic buildings in the Hallbankgate area like Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Hallbankgate if you like historic monuments.

There are a number of caves near Hallbankgate including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Hallbankgate if you like nature reserves.

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

Hallbankgate's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a several good islands in the area around Hallbankgate like Piel Island.

Hallbankgate History

There are some historic monuments around Hallbankgate:

• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Lanercost Bridge
• Crooks Roman temporary camp
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• Willowford Roman temporary camp
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Throp Roman fortlet
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
• The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Boothby Roman fort
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• The Curricks camp
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Hadrian's Wall, vallum, section of the Stanegate Roman road and a Roman temporary camp between the B6318 road and Poltross Burn in wall miles 46 and 47
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Roachburn Colliery
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• 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
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system