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