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.

How Mill's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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

There are a number of villages near How Mill 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 some of How Mill best ancient sites to visit near How Mill.

There are a number of ruins near How Mill including 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 How Mill 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.

The area around How Mill boasts some of the best waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a number of rivers and streams near How Mill including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

How Mill has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

There are a several good woodlands in the How Mill area like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a several good towns in the How Mill area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

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

The area around How Mill features a number of interesting castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

There are a several good historic buildings in the How Mill area like Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Fairy Steps is one of How Mill's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in How Mill.

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

The area around How Mill boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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.

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

There are a several good islands in the area around How Mill like Piel Island.

How Mill History

There are some historic monuments around How Mill:

• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Castle Hill
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• 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
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Boothby Roman fort
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Broomrigg A: large irregular stone circle and associated stone alignment in Broomrigg Plantation, 820m south east of Street House
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• 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
• Lanercost Bridge
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge