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.

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

Nether Denton has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are some of Nether Denton best villages to visit near Nether Denton.

Nether Denton's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Nether Denton has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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.

The area around Nether Denton features a number of interesting old mines 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.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are great places to visit near Nether Denton if you like waterfalls.

Nether Denton's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Nether Denton boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

Nether Denton's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

There are a several good mountains in the Nether Denton area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Nether Denton best castles to visit near Nether Denton.

There are a number of historic buildings near Nether Denton 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.

There are a number of historic monuments near to Nether Denton including Fairy Steps.

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Nether Denton.

There are a number of bluebell woods near Nether Denton including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Nether Denton like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

The area around Nether Denton's best islands can be found at Piel Island.

Nether Denton History

There are some historic monuments around Nether Denton:

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