Irthington is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Irthington

There are great places to visit near Irthington 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 some of Irthington best hills to visit near Irthington.

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

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

Irthington 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.

The area around Irthington features a number of interesting ruins 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.

The area around Irthington 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.

The area around Irthington 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.

The area around Irthington 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.

The area around Irthington boasts some of the best lakes including 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 some of Irthington best woodlands to visit near Irthington.

Don't miss Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen's towns if visiting the area around Irthington.

There are a several good mountains in the Irthington area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are great places to visit near Irthington if you like historic buildings.

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

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

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Irthington if you like bluebell woods.

Places near Irthington feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Irthington.

There are a several good airports in the Irthington area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Irthington is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Irthington History

There are some historic monuments around Irthington:

• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Boothby Roman fort
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• 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
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• 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
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort 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.
• 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
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Castle Hill
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• 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 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
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• 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
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Lanercost Bridge
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription