Retail in Lanercost
There are great places to visit near Lanercost 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 Lanercost including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
Hiking Areas to visit near Lanercost include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Lanercost's best nearby villages can be found at Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Don't miss Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Lanercost.
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 some of Lanercost best ruins to visit near Lanercost.
Lanercost's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.
There are a number of waterfalls near Lanercost 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 Lanercost best rivers and streams to visit near Lanercost.
Lanercost has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Woodlands to visit near Lanercost include Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
There are a several good towns in the Lanercost area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
There are a number of mountains near Lanercost including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Lanercost.
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 Lanercost if you like historic buildings.
There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Lanercost like Fairy Steps.
The area around Lanercost features a number of interesting caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
There are a several good bluebell woods in the Lanercost area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Nature Reserves to visit near Lanercost include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Lanercost.
Airports to visit near Lanercost include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
The area around Lanercost's best islands can be found at Piel Island.
Lanercost History
There are some historic monuments around Lanercost:
- Castle Hill
- Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Boothby Roman fort
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
- 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
- Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Lanercost Bridge
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Roachburn Colliery
- 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
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- 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 between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Towerbrae round cairn
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- 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
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- 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
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Hallsteads Iron Age camp
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- 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
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
- Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- 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
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
