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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are great places to visit near Midgeholme if you like hills.

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.

Midgeholme has some unmissable villages nearby like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

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

Midgeholme has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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.

Midgeholme's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Midgeholme.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are great places to visit near Midgeholme if you like rivers and streams.

There are a number of lakes near Midgeholme including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

Towns to visit near Midgeholme include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Midgeholme best mountains to visit near Midgeholme.

There are a number of castles near Midgeholme including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Midgeholme's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Midgeholme is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Midgeholme.

Bluebell Woods to visit near Midgeholme include Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Midgeholme's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Midgeholme.

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

Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Midgeholme.

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Midgeholme if you like islands.

Midgeholme History

There are some historic monuments around Midgeholme:

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