Heads Nook is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Heads Nook postcode: CA8 9AN

Retail in Heads Nook

There are great places to visit near Heads Nook 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 Heads Nook boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell's hiking areas if visiting the area around Heads Nook.

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

There are a number of ancient sites near Heads Nook including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Heads Nook'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.

Heads Nook'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.

Waterfalls to visit near Heads Nook include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the Heads Nook area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Heads Nook boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Heads Nook has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

The area around Heads Nook features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

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

There are a number of castles near Heads Nook including 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 some of Heads Nook best historic buildings to visit near Heads Nook.

Historic Monuments to visit near Heads Nook include Fairy Steps.

The area around Heads Nook boasts some of the best caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

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

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

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

Heads Nook is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Heads Nook History

There are some historic monuments around Heads Nook:

• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg A: large irregular stone circle and associated stone alignment in Broomrigg Plantation, 820m south east of Street House
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• Castle Hill
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Park House Roman fort
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• 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
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Boothby Roman fort
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Lanercost Bridge
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin