Retail in Holme
There are great places to visit near Holme 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 Holme boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
The area around Holme boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Holme if you like villages.
Holme 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.
Don't miss 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's ruins if visiting the area around Holme.
Old Mines to visit near Holme 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.
Holme's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Holme boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
There are a several good lakes in the Holme area 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 Holme if you like woodlands.
Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are great places to visit near Holme if you like towns.
Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Holme if you like mountains.
There are a several good castles in the Holme area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
The area around Holme boasts some of the best historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
Don't miss Fairy Steps's historic monuments if visiting the area around Holme.
There are a several good caves in the Holme area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Holme best bluebell woods to visit near Holme.
Places near Holme feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
The area around Holme's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Holme has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Places near Holme feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.
Holme History
There are some historic monuments around Holme:
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend Bridge
- Cairns on Kiln Bank 1/6 to 1/2 mile (270m-800m) SSE of Far Kiln Bank Farmhouse
- Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell
- Hodbarrow Beacon
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Lacra Old Kirk medieval dispersed settlement and associated lynchets 800m and 830m NNE of Bankfield House
- Great Grassoms prehistoric cairnfield, four funerary cairns, two medieval dispersed settlements and associated field systems on Bootle Fell
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m north east of Winds Gate
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Conscientious Objectors’ Stone, 140m south east of Green Moor farmhouse
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 600m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Great Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 710m south east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Stone circle and funerary cairn 440m south west of Great Knott, Lacra
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Duddon Bridge Ironworks and associated leats and Duddon Bridge Bobbin Mill and associated leats 370m north west of Duddon Bridge
- Castle Hill
- Prehistoric cairnfield, ring cairn, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 670m east of Hodgewife Well
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Devil's Bridge SW of Horrace
- Lath Rigg prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 600m NNW of Thwaite Yeat
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Prehistoric hut circle settlement and cairnfield, three medieval settlements and associated field systems, and two shielings north of Crosbythwaite
- Two stone circles, a stone avenue and a stone alignment at Great Knott, Lacra
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend Bridge
- Cairn and ring mound on Long Moor, W of Gill House Beck
- Stone circle 410m SSW of Great Knott, Lacra
- Prehistoric hut circle settlements, enclosure, cairnfields, funerary cairns, a dispersed medieval settlement, field system and kilns on Heathwaite Fell
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of Birkerthwaite
- Hesk Fell prehistoric cairnfield and funerary cairn, a linear boundary, and a dispersed medieval settlement and field system 840m west of Horseman Gate
- Settlement on The Hawk
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield, funerary cairn and a linear boundary 1000m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Millom Castle (ruined portions)
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Stone circle west of Great Knott, Lacra
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Hesk Fell 800m north of Holehouse Bridge
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 730m ENE of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Crosby Gill prehistoric cairnfield and field system and a dispersed medieval settlement and associated lynchets 450m west of Crosbythwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Giant's Grave standing stones, Kirksanton
- Prehistoric cairnfield 840m east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of Birkerthwaite
