Nether Denton is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Nether Denton

There are great places to visit near Nether Denton 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.

Nether Denton has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Nether Denton area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Nether Denton features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Nether Denton area like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

The area around Nether Denton 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.

Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are great places to visit near Nether Denton if you like old mines.

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

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

There are a several good lakes in the Nether Denton area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Nether Denton's best nearby woodlands can be found at Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a several good towns in the Nether Denton area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

The area around Nether Denton 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.

The area around Nether Denton boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Don't miss Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct's historic buildings if visiting the area around Nether Denton.

Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Nether Denton if you like historic monuments.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Nether Denton best caves to visit near Nether Denton.

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

Nether Denton is near some unmissable nature reserves like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

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

The area around Nether Denton features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a several good islands in the area around Nether Denton like Piel Island.

Nether Denton History

There are some historic monuments around Nether Denton:

• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Willowford Roman temporary camp
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Boothby Roman fort
• Shieling 150m south of Tinkler Crags
• RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Underground Launcher Facility
• Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Tower Tye ringwork
• 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
• RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
• The Curricks camp
• Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• 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
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Thirlwall Castle
• Two shielings below Crying Crag
• Crooks Roman temporary camp
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Lanercost Bridge
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• Shieling north of Jerrycalf Rigg
• Group of shielings, 100m north of Tinkler Crags
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Standing stone on Standingstone Rigg
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Carvoran Roman fort and the west side of the B6318 road in wall mile 46
• Shieling, 110m south of Bull Crag
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Towerbrae round cairn
• Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• 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
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• 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
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Roachburn Colliery
• Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
• Hadrian's Wall, vallum, section of the Stanegate Roman road and a Roman temporary camp between the B6318 road and Poltross Burn in wall miles 46 and 47
• Throp Roman fortlet
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge