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.

There are a number of hills near Kirkhouse 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.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Kirkhouse.

The area around Kirkhouse boasts some of the best ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

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 are great places to visit near Kirkhouse if you like ruins.

The area around Kirkhouse 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 Kirkhouse.

Kirkhouse's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

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

There are a several good woodlands in the Kirkhouse area 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.

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

Kirkhouse's best nearby castles can be found at Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Historic Buildings to visit near Kirkhouse include Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Kirkhouse is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Kirkhouse.

There are a several good bluebell woods in the Kirkhouse area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

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

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

The area around Kirkhouse's best islands can be found at Piel Island.

Kirkhouse History

There are some historic monuments around Kirkhouse:

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