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