Retail in Lees Hill
There are great places to visit near Lees Hill 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 Lees Hill including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
There are a several good hiking areas in the Lees Hill area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Lees Hill.
There are a number of ancient sites near Lees Hill including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
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 Lees Hill best ruins to visit near Lees Hill.
The area around Lees Hill boasts some of the best old mines including 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 several good waterfalls in the Lees Hill area like 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 great places to visit near Lees Hill if you like rivers and streams.
Lees Hill's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
The area around Lees Hill features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Towns to visit near Lees Hill include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Lees Hill'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.
The area around Lees Hill boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
There are a several good historic buildings in the Lees Hill area like 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 Lees Hill.
There are a several good caves in the Lees Hill area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Lees Hill if you like bluebell woods.
Nature Reserves to visit near Lees Hill include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Lees Hill like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
The area around Lees Hill boasts some of the best airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
There are a several good islands in the area around Lees Hill like Piel Island.
Lees Hill History
There are some historic monuments around Lees Hill:
- Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Roachburn Colliery
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Castle Hill
- Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- 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
- Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
- Crew Castle bastle
- The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
- 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
- Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
- Boothby Roman fort
- Lanercost Bridge
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of seven
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Towerbrae round cairn
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- 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
- 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
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Hazel Gill shieling
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Low Grains bastle
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- 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
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
