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.

There are a number of hills near Little Clifton including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Little Clifton area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Little Clifton if you like ancient sites.

Don't miss 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's ruins if visiting the area around Little Clifton.

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 Little Clifton.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are great places to visit near Little Clifton if you like waterfalls.

Little Clifton's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at 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 Little Clifton if you like lakes.

Woodlands to visit near Little Clifton include Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Little Clifton has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

The area around Little Clifton features a number of interesting mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Little Clifton 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 some of Little Clifton best historic buildings to visit near Little Clifton.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Little Clifton like Fairy Steps.

Little Clifton has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Little Clifton best bluebell woods to visit near Little Clifton.

Little Clifton is near some unmissable nature reserves like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

Little Clifton is near some unmissable disused railway lines like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

Airports to visit near Little Clifton include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a several good islands in the area around Little Clifton like Piel Island.

Little Clifton History

There are some historic monuments around Little Clifton:

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