Longtown is a Town in the county of Cumbria.

Longtown postcode: CA6 5UY

Retail in Longtown

There are great places to visit near Longtown 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.

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

Longtown's best nearby hiking areas can be found at 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 Longtown best villages to visit near Longtown.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Longtown area like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

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 Longtown best ruins to visit near Longtown.

Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are some of Longtown best old mines to visit near Longtown.

The area around Longtown 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.

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 Longtown.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are some of Longtown best lakes to visit near Longtown.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Longtown.

The area around Longtown features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Longtown.

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Longtown best castles to visit near Longtown.

The area around Longtown features a number of interesting 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.

Longtown is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

The area around Longtown features a number of interesting caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

There are a number of bluebell woods near Longtown including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Longtown.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Longtown if you like disused railway lines.

The area around Longtown boasts some of the best airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

The area close to Longtown boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

Longtown History

There are some historic monuments around Longtown:

• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Liddel Strength motte and bailey castle and fortified tower house
• Park House,cairn 730m SSE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4407
• 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
• Scots' Dike, boundary earthwork, Scotsdike Plantation Secular: linear earthwork, dyke SM660
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• 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 vallum between east side of road at Burgh Head, and boundary south of Ash Tree Square, Burgh-by-Sands in wall miles 71 and 72
• Timpanheck Cottage, cursus 340m WNW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cursus/bank barrow SM11964
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway west of Kirkandrews Farm and the dismantled railway south east of Burgh by Sands in wall miles 70 and 71
• Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the field boundary south of the site of St Andrew's Church, Kirkandrews on Eden in wall miles 68 and 69
• Rockcliffe Cross
• Gilnockie Castle, earthwork NE of Gilnockie Bridge Secular: earthwork SM11996
• Roman fort and watch tower, 800m SSW of Amberfield
• Scots' Dike
• Gilnockie Roman Camp, 300m SW of New Woodhead Roman: camp SM668
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Mill Beck and the field boundary east of Kirkandrews Farm in wall mile 69
• Burgh by Sands Roman fort, Beaumont camp, Burgh Castle and Hadrian's Wall from boundary west of churchyard, Beaumont to Burgh Head in wall miles 70 and 71
• Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary to the south of the site of St Andrew's Church and Eden Bank at Beaumont in wall miles 69 and 70
• Beaumont motte castle and section of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 70 including turret 70a
• Woodslee,burial mound 250m SW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: mound (ritual or funerary) SM4722
• 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 M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill and the field boundary south east of Mill Beck in wall mile 68