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.

There are a number of hills near Milton 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 some of Milton best hiking areas to visit near Milton.

The area around Milton boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are some of Milton best ancient sites to visit near Milton.

Ruins to visit near Milton 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 Milton features a number of interesting 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.

Milton'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 Milton best rivers and streams to visit near Milton.

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

The area around Milton boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

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

There are a number of mountains near Milton including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Milton.

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 Milton best historic buildings to visit near Milton.

There are a number of historic monuments near to Milton including Fairy Steps.

There are a number of caves near Milton including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

The area around Milton boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

The area close to Milton boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Milton if you like airports.

Milton is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Milton History

There are some historic monuments around Milton:

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