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's best nearby hills can be found at 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 great places to visit near Lanercost if you like hiking areas.
Lanercost has some unmissable villages nearby like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Lanercost's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
There are a number of ruins near Lanercost 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.
Lanercost has some unmissable old mines nearby 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.
Lanercost's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
There are a number of rivers and streams near Lanercost including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
Lanercost has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are some of Lanercost best woodlands to visit near Lanercost.
Lanercost's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
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.
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.
There are a number of historic monuments near to Lanercost including Fairy Steps.
Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Lanercost.
The area around Lanercost boasts some of the best bluebell woods 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.
The area close to Lanercost boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Lanercost if you like airports.
There are a several good islands in the area around Lanercost like Piel Island.
Lanercost History
There are some historic monuments around Lanercost:
- Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
- Boothby Roman fort
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 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
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
- 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
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- 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
- Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
- Towerbrae round cairn
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
- 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
- Lanercost Bridge
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
- 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 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 dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Roachburn Colliery
- Castle Hill
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
