Lanercost is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Lanercost postcode: CA8 2HQ

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.

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks's hills if visiting the area around Lanercost.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Lanercost if you like hiking areas.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are some of Lanercost best villages to visit near Lanercost.

Ancient Sites to visit near Lanercost 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 Lanercost 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 Lanercost.

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.

Lanercost has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Lanercost's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

The area around Lanercost boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

The area around Lanercost features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Lanercost'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.

There are a several good castles in the Lanercost area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

The area around Lanercost features a number of interesting historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Historic Monuments to visit near Lanercost include Fairy Steps.

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

There are a number of bluebell woods near Lanercost including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Lanercost if you like nature reserves.

Places near Lanercost feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Lanercost if you like islands.

Lanercost History

There are some historic monuments around Lanercost:

• 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
• 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
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Castle Hill
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
• Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
• Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Towerbrae round cairn
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
• Boothby Roman fort
• Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Roachburn Colliery
• 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
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• 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
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• 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
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
• 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
• Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Lanercost Bridge