Little Clifton is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Little Clifton

There are great places to visit near Little Clifton 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.

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

The area around Little Clifton features a number of interesting hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Little Clifton boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Ancient Sites to visit near Little Clifton include Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

There are a number of ruins near Little Clifton 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.

The area around Little Clifton features a number of interesting 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.

The area around Little Clifton features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Little Clifton has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby 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 Little Clifton 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 Little Clifton if you like woodlands.

There are a several good towns in the Little Clifton area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Little Clifton'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.

Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Little Clifton.

The area around Little Clifton boasts some of the best historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Places near Little Clifton feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Little Clifton best caves to visit near Little Clifton.

Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Little Clifton.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Little Clifton if you like nature reserves.

The area around Little Clifton's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a several good airports in the Little Clifton area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

The area around Little Clifton's best islands can be found at Piel Island.

Little Clifton History

There are some historic monuments around Little Clifton:

• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Netherhall
• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Defended enclosure at Salterbeck
• Settlement 25m SE of Gatra
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• Hayes Castle
• Round cairn 75m north east of summit of Carling Knott
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Large irregular stone circle and a round cairn on Dean Moor
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• Round cairn on summit of Carling Knott
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Jane Pit, a 19th century coal mine adjacent to the Sports Ground, Mossbay
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified house
• Burrow Walls Roman fort
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall