Milton is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Milton postcode: CA8 1HX

Retail in Milton

There are great places to visit near Milton 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.

Milton's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Milton's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a several good villages in the Milton area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Milton boasts some of the best 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.

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 Milton.

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 Milton best old mines to visit near Milton.

There are a number of waterfalls near Milton including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

The area around Milton features a number of interesting rivers and streams including 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 Milton if you like lakes.

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

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

Milton has some unmissable mountains nearby like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Milton boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Milton'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.

Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Milton if you like historic monuments.

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

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

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Milton's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Milton.

There are a number of airports near Milton including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Islands to visit near Milton include Piel Island.

Milton History

There are some historic monuments around Milton:

• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks and the road to Garthside in wall miles 52, 53 and 54
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• 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
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• 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
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Roachburn Colliery
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Lanercost Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• 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 between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Boothby Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum from A6071 to The Cottage in the case of the Wall, and to the road to Oldwall, for the vallum, in wall miles 57, 58 and 59
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Castle Hill
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall