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.

There are a number of hills near Naworth including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

The area around Naworth boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Naworth.

The area around Naworth features a number of interesting 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.

Naworth'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 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.

There are a several good waterfalls in the Naworth area like 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 great places to visit near Naworth if you like rivers and streams.

Lakes to visit near Naworth include Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Naworth has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Naworth best towns to visit near Naworth.

The area around Naworth boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Castles to visit near Naworth include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

There are a number of historic buildings near Naworth 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 around Naworth's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.

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

The area around Naworth features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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.

Naworth has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

The area close to Naworth boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

Naworth History

There are some historic monuments around Naworth:

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