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