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.

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks's hills if visiting the area around Heads Nook.

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

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

Heads Nook 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.

Heads Nook has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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 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.

Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Heads Nook.

Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Heads Nook.

The area around Heads Nook boasts some of the best lakes including 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 Heads Nook if you like woodlands.

Heads Nook's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Heads Nook.

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).

Historic Buildings to visit near Heads Nook 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.

Heads Nook is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

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

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

Nature Reserves to visit near Heads Nook include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area close to Heads Nook boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around Heads Nook features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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