Midgeholme is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Midgeholme

There are great places to visit near Midgeholme 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.

The area around Midgeholme boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Midgeholme if you like hiking areas.

The area around Midgeholme features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Midgeholme features a number of interesting ancient sites 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 Midgeholme 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.

The area around Midgeholme boasts some of the best 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.

Midgeholme's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Midgeholme best rivers and streams to visit near Midgeholme.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are great places to visit near Midgeholme if you like lakes.

There are a number of woodlands near Midgeholme including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

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

Midgeholme'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.

There are a number of castles near Midgeholme 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 Midgeholme if you like historic buildings.

Fairy Steps is one of Midgeholme's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Midgeholme.

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

There are a several good bluebell woods in the Midgeholme area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Nature Reserves to visit near Midgeholme include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Places near Midgeholme feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Midgeholme's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Places near Midgeholme feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.

Midgeholme History

There are some historic monuments around Midgeholme:

• 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
• Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the unclassified road to Old Shield and the field boundary west of the fort in wall miles 45 and 46
• Kirkhaugh Bridge abutments 1/2 mile (800m) NE of Whitley Castle
• Maiden Way Roman road over Hartleyburn Common and Glendue Fell
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Throp Roman fortlet
• Roachburn Colliery
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry East and Walltown Quarry West in wall mile 45
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Thirlwall Castle
• Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp
• The Curricks camp
• Crooks Roman temporary camp
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmount Hill and Walltown Quarry East in wall miles 43, 44 and 45
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• Willowford Roman temporary camp
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Whitley Castle Roman fort and vicus, 280m south west of Castle Nook
• Sunny Rigg 3 Roman temporary camp
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall, vallum, section of the Stanegate Roman road and a Roman temporary camp between the B6318 road and Poltross Burn in wall miles 46 and 47
• Bellister Castle (uninhabited parts)
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• Blenkinsopp Castle (uninhabited parts)
• The section of Stanegate Roman road from Fell End Roman temporary camp to the track to Old Shield, and the Roman cemetery adjacent to Carvoran Roman fort
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Fell End Roman temporary camp and section of the Stanegate Roman road
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Carvoran Roman fort and the west side of the B6318 road in wall mile 46
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Sunny Rigg 2 Roman temporary camp
• The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Walltown Quarry West in wall miles 43, 44 and 45