Retail in Muncaster
There are great places to visit near Muncaster 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 Muncaster including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
Muncaster has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Villages to visit near Muncaster include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Muncaster has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
Muncaster's best nearby ruins can be found at 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.
There are a number of old mines near Muncaster 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.
The area around Muncaster features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Muncaster.
There are a number of lakes near Muncaster including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
The area around Muncaster features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Muncaster's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Muncaster.
The area around Muncaster boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
The area around Muncaster boasts some of the best historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
The area close to Muncaster boasts some of the best historic monuments including Fairy Steps.
Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Muncaster if you like caves.
There are a several good bluebell woods in the Muncaster area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Muncaster if you like nature reserves.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Muncaster if you like disused railway lines.
The area around Muncaster boasts some of the best airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Piel Island is one of Muncaster's best, nearby islands to visit in Muncaster.
Muncaster History
There are some historic monuments around Muncaster:
- Prehistoric enclosure containing ten clearance cairns south west of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of Birkerthwaite
- Great Grassoms prehistoric cairnfield, four funerary cairns, two medieval dispersed settlements and associated field systems on Bootle Fell
- Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell
- Green How West unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement 540m NNE of Birkerthwaite
- Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Ravenglass Roman fort
- High cross shaft in St John's churchyard
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend Bridge
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Infell Wood medieval enclosure, 550m north west of Scargreen
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- High cross in St Paul's churchyard
- Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- Roman kilns
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend Bridge
- Seaton nunnery (site of)
- Cairnfield south of Straighthead Gill, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Corney Fell, 620m south east of Lambground
- Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney
- Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls Castle
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Prehistoric enclosure containing three hut circles and eight clearance cairns and an adjacent hut circle and cairnfield north east of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, hut circles and a farmstead on Corney Fell, 440m north west of Buckbarow Bridge
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure, 5 stone circles, 10 funerary cairns, 6 stone banks, 2 stone walls, a lynchet and a trackway on Burnmoor
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Lath Rigg prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 600m NNW of Thwaite Yeat
- Prehistoric cairnfield, ring cairn, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 670m east of Hodgewife Well
- High cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Gray Borran group of cairns
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside
- Drigg Holme packhorse bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Corney Fell, 680m north east of Charlesground
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Cairnfield including a funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlement
- Maiden Castle round cairn, Burnmoor
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
