Newby East is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Newby East postcode: CA4 8QX

Retail in Newby East

There are great places to visit near Newby East 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.

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

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

Villages to visit near Newby East include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Newby East 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.

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 are some of Newby East best ruins to visit near Newby East.

Newby East's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Newby East.

The area around Newby East features a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Newby East features a number of interesting lakes including 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 Newby East.

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

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Newby East if you like mountains.

Newby East's best nearby castles can be found at 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 Newby East.

Historic Monuments to visit near Newby East include Fairy Steps.

There are a several good caves in the Newby East area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Newby East's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

There are a number of nature reserves near to Newby East including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area close to Newby East boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Airports to visit near Newby East include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a several good islands in the area around Newby East like Piel Island.

Newby East History

There are some historic monuments around Newby East:

• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Castle Hill
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• 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 and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Park House Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• 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
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church