Hethersgill is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Hethersgill

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

Hethersgill's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of villages near Hethersgill including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Hethersgill if you like ancient sites.

Hethersgill 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.

Old Mines to visit near Hethersgill include 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 Hethersgill.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are great places to visit near Hethersgill if you like rivers and streams.

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

Woodlands to visit near Hethersgill include Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Towns to visit near Hethersgill include 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 Hethersgill.

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Hethersgill best castles to visit near Hethersgill.

Historic Buildings to visit near Hethersgill 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.

The area close to Hethersgill boasts some of the best historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

Hethersgill has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

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

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Hethersgill like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Hethersgill.

Hethersgill is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Hethersgill History

There are some historic monuments around Hethersgill:

• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Castle Hill
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• 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
• 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 between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64