How Mill is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

How Mill postcode: CA8 9JT

Retail in How Mill

There are great places to visit near How Mill 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 How Mill.

How Mill has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around How Mill boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Don't miss Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle's ancient sites if visiting the area around How Mill.

Ruins to visit near How Mill include 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 How Mill boasts some of the best 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.

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

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 How Mill.

How Mill has some unmissable lakes nearby 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 How Mill if you like woodlands.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are great places to visit near How Mill if you like towns.

The area around How Mill features a number of interesting mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

How Mill has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

The area around How Mill features a number of interesting 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 How Mill.

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

Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around How Mill.

There are a number of nature reserves near to How Mill including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around How Mill's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of How Mill best airports to visit near How Mill.

The area close to How Mill boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

How Mill History

There are some historic monuments around How Mill:

• Lanercost Bridge
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Tower Tye ringwork
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• 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
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• 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
• Boothby Roman fort
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Castle Hill
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House