Naworth is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Naworth postcode: CA8 2HF

Retail in Naworth

There are great places to visit near Naworth 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.

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

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell's hiking areas if visiting the area around Naworth.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Naworth if you like villages.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Naworth if you like ancient sites.

The area around Naworth features a number of interesting ruins including 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 Naworth 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.

Naworth'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.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Naworth including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Naworth features a number of interesting lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are great places to visit near Naworth if you like woodlands.

Don't miss Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen's towns if visiting the area around Naworth.

The area around Naworth features a number of interesting mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

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

The area around Naworth features a number of interesting 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.

Naworth is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Naworth's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Naworth.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Naworth if you like nature reserves.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Naworth include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Places near Naworth feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.

Naworth History

There are some historic monuments around Naworth:

• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Castle Hill
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Boothby Roman fort
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Roachburn Colliery
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Lanercost Bridge
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• 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 Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Towerbrae round cairn
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate 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
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• 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