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.
Lees Hill's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
The area around Lees Hill features a number of interesting hiking areas including 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.
Ruins to visit near Lees Hill include 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.
There are a several good old mines in the Lees Hill area 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.
Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Lees Hill.
River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Lees Hill best rivers and streams to visit near Lees Hill.
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.
The area around Lees Hill features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Lees Hill has some unmissable mountains nearby like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
The area around Lees Hill features a number of interesting castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are great places to visit near Lees Hill if you like historic buildings.
Don't miss Fairy Steps's historic monuments if visiting the area around Lees Hill.
Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Lees Hill.
The area around Lees Hill features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
There are a number of nature reserves near to Lees Hill including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Disused Railway Lines to visit near Lees Hill include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Lees Hill if you like airports.
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:
- Roachburn Colliery
- The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
- 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
- Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- Towerbrae round cairn
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of seven
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- 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
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- 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
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- 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
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- 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
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- Low Grains bastle
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
- Castle Hill
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
- Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
- Boothby Roman fort
- 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 Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Crew Castle bastle
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
