Linstock is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Linstock postcode: CA6 4RR

Retail in Linstock

There are great places to visit near Linstock 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.

Linstock has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell's hiking areas if visiting the area around Linstock.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are some of Linstock best villages to visit near Linstock.

There are a number of ancient sites near Linstock including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

The area around Linstock boasts some of the best ruins including 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.

Old Mines to visit near Linstock include 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 great places to visit near Linstock if you like waterfalls.

Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Linstock.

Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Linstock.

There are a several good woodlands in the Linstock area like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Linstock best towns to visit near Linstock.

There are a several good mountains in the Linstock area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a several good castles in the Linstock area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Historic Buildings to visit near Linstock include Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Linstock is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Linstock's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Linstock has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

There are a number of nature reserves near to Linstock including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a number of disused railway lines near to Linstock including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Linstock best airports to visit near Linstock.

Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Linstock.

Linstock History

There are some historic monuments around Linstock:

• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Bishop's Dyke
• Park House Roman fort
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• City wall, NE side
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundaries north of the properties on Whiteclosegate and the field boundary west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• 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 M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Davidson's Banks and road to Grinsdale and vallum between Davidson's Banks and dismantled railway in wall miles 67 and 68
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• 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 the dismantled railway north of Knockupworth Cottage and the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill in wall mile 67
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row