Laversdale is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Laversdale postcode: CA6 4PJ

Retail in Laversdale

There are great places to visit near Laversdale 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 Laversdale including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a number of hiking areas near Laversdale including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Villages to visit near Laversdale include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Laversdale 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.

There are a several good ruins in the Laversdale area like 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.

Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are great places to visit near Laversdale if you like old mines.

The area around Laversdale features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the Laversdale area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Laversdale has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Laversdale.

The area around Laversdale boasts some of the best towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

The area around Laversdale features a number of interesting mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Laversdale boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

The area around Laversdale boasts some of the best 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.

The area around Laversdale's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.

Caves to visit near Laversdale include Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Laversdale if you like bluebell woods.

Places near Laversdale feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Laversdale.

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

Laversdale History

There are some historic monuments around Laversdale:

• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Castle Hill
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• 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
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57