Rickerby is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Rickerby postcode: CA3 9AA

Retail in Rickerby

There are great places to visit near Rickerby 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.

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

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Rickerby if you like hiking areas.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Rickerby if you like villages.

Ancient Sites to visit near Rickerby include Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Rickerby 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 Rickerby 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.

Rickerby has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Rickerby.

There are a number of lakes near Rickerby including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

The area around Rickerby features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

There are a number of mountains near Rickerby including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Rickerby has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Rickerby has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Historic Monuments to visit near Rickerby include Fairy Steps.

The area around Rickerby boasts some of the best caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Rickerby.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Rickerby include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around Rickerby boasts some of the best airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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

Rickerby History

There are some historic monuments around Rickerby:

• Bishop's Dyke
• Settlement 500yds (460m) SE of Cardew Hill
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundaries north of the properties on Whiteclosegate and the field boundary west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65
• Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Park House Roman fort
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• 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 between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• Rectangular enclosures 95yds (85m) N of Sceughmire
• Rockcliffe Cross
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Mill Beck and the field boundary east of Kirkandrews Farm in wall mile 69
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary to the south of the site of St Andrew's Church and Eden Bank at Beaumont in wall miles 69 and 70
• Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Davidson's Banks and road to Grinsdale and vallum between Davidson's Banks and dismantled railway in wall miles 67 and 68
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill and the field boundary south east of Mill Beck in wall mile 68
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp
• Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the field boundary south of the site of St Andrew's Church, Kirkandrews on Eden in wall miles 68 and 69
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway north of Knockupworth Cottage and the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill in wall mile 67
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• City wall, NE side