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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are some of Milton best hills to visit near Milton.

There are a number of hiking areas near Milton including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Milton's best nearby villages can be found at Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Don't miss Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Milton.

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.

Milton'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.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are some of Milton best waterfalls to visit near Milton.

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 some of Milton best lakes to visit near Milton.

The area around Milton features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

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

Mountains to visit near Milton include 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.

The area around Milton's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.

Milton has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Milton if you like bluebell woods.

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Milton like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Milton.

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

Piel Island is one of Milton's best, nearby islands to visit in Milton.

Milton History

There are some historic monuments around Milton:

• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• 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 and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Castle Hill
• Tower Tye ringwork
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Boothby Roman fort
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• 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
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• 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
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Lanercost Bridge
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Roachburn Colliery
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• 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
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike