Retail in Nether Wasdale
There are great places to visit near Nether Wasdale 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.
Don't miss Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks's hills if visiting the area around Nether Wasdale.
There are a number of hiking areas near Nether Wasdale including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
The area around Nether Wasdale features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Nether Wasdale 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.
The area around Nether Wasdale 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 Wasdale 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 Wasdale best waterfalls to visit near Nether Wasdale.
Nether Wasdale'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.
There are a several good lakes in the Nether Wasdale area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Nether Wasdale.
Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Nether Wasdale best towns to visit near Nether Wasdale.
Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Nether Wasdale best mountains to visit near Nether Wasdale.
There are a number of castles near Nether Wasdale including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are some of Nether Wasdale best historic buildings to visit near Nether Wasdale.
Places near Nether Wasdale feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.
The area around Nether Wasdale features a number of interesting caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Nether Wasdale best bluebell woods to visit near Nether Wasdale.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Nether Wasdale if you like nature reserves.
There are a number of disused railway lines near to Nether Wasdale including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Airports to visit near Nether Wasdale include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Places near Nether Wasdale feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.
Nether Wasdale History
There are some historic monuments around Nether Wasdale:
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Ravenglass Roman fort
- Prehistoric enclosure north of Little Pie, Burnmoor
- Tongue How prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, cemetery and cairnfield, Romano-British farmstead, shieling and lynchets
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- High cross in St Paul's churchyard
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of Birkerthwaite
- Smithy Beck settlement: Latterbarrow longhouse 860m north west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Town Bank prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, ring cairn and cairnfield
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Smithy Beck settlement 1.43km north-west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Cairns and hut circles at the junction of River Calder and Whoap Beck
- Prehistoric enclosure containing ten clearance cairns south west of Boat How, Burnmoor
- High cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Woundell Beck medieval settlement, associated field system and cairnfield 890m west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and a Romano-British farmstead and its associated field system 1.24 km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite
- Monk's Bridge 320m south east of Farthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Maiden Castle round cairn, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Green How West unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement 540m NNE of Birkerthwaite
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 600m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Crosby Gill prehistoric cairnfield and field system and a dispersed medieval settlement and associated lynchets 450m west of Crosbythwaite
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend Bridge
- Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns
- Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck
- Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls Castle
- Great Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 710m south east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- 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 cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- High cross shaft in St John's churchyard
- Cairnfield including a funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, Burnmoor
- Gillerthwaite and Dodsgill Beck medieval settlements, associated field systems and cairnfields 790m ENE and 370m north-east of Low Gillerthwaite
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Hesk Fell 800m north of Holehouse Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Smithy Beck prehistoric cairnfield, charcoal burning sites, a bloomery and associated earthworks 1.97km WNW of Low Gillerthwaite
- Gray Borran group of cairns
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend Bridge
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- Smithy Beck settlement 1.10km north-west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Drigg Holme packhorse bridge
- Roman kilns
- Cairnfield south of Straighthead Gill, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Infell Wood medieval enclosure, 550m north west of Scargreen
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Hesk Fell prehistoric cairnfield and funerary cairn, a linear boundary, and a dispersed medieval settlement and field system 840m west of Horseman Gate
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Medieval shielings at Great Cove, 2.68km south of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric enclosure containing three hut circles and eight clearance cairns and an adjacent hut circle and cairnfield north east of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Lank Rigg round cairn
- Prehistoric cairnfield 1.0km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 730m ENE of Birkerthwaite
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
