How Mill is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

How Mill postcode: CA8 9JT

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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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are great places to visit near How Mill if you like hills.

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.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near How Mill if you like villages.

There are a number of ancient sites near How Mill including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

How Mill 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.

The area around How Mill features a number of interesting 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.

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 How Mill.

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

There are a number of lakes near How Mill including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

How Mill has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of How Mill best towns to visit near How Mill.

How Mill's best nearby mountains can be found at Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

How Mill's best nearby castles can be found at 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.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around How Mill like Fairy Steps.

There are a several good caves in the How Mill area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Bluebell Woods to visit near How Mill include Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of How Mill's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in How Mill.

There are a number of disused railway lines near to How Mill including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Airports to visit near How Mill include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Islands to visit near How Mill include Piel Island.

How Mill History

There are some historic monuments around How Mill:

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