Kirkhouse is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Kirkhouse postcode: CA8 1JP

Retail in Kirkhouse

There are great places to visit near Kirkhouse 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 Kirkhouse features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Kirkhouse best hiking areas to visit near Kirkhouse.

Villages to visit near Kirkhouse include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Ancient Sites to visit near Kirkhouse include 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 Kirkhouse boasts some of the best 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.

Don't miss Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry's old mines if visiting the area around Kirkhouse.

There are a number of waterfalls near Kirkhouse including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Kirkhouse best rivers and streams to visit near Kirkhouse.

Lakes to visit near Kirkhouse include Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

Kirkhouse's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

The area around Kirkhouse boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Kirkhouse boasts some of the best 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 Kirkhouse if you like historic buildings.

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

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

Kirkhouse's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Nature Reserves to visit near Kirkhouse include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Kirkhouse is near some unmissable disused railway lines like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

The area around Kirkhouse features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Piel Island is one of Kirkhouse's best, nearby islands to visit in Kirkhouse.

Kirkhouse History

There are some historic monuments around Kirkhouse:

• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Throp Roman fortlet
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• 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 between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Boothby Roman fort
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Castle Hill
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Willowford Roman temporary camp
• Roachburn Colliery
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Lanercost Bridge
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike