Roadhead is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Roadhead postcode: CA6 6NP

Retail in Roadhead

There are great places to visit near Roadhead 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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are great places to visit near Roadhead if you like hills.

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

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

The area around Roadhead boasts some of the best ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Roadhead's best nearby ruins can be found at 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.

Don't miss Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry's old mines if visiting the area around Roadhead.

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

Rivers and Streams to visit near Roadhead include River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Roadhead.

There are a number of woodlands near Roadhead including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Towns to visit near Roadhead include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Roadhead best mountains to visit near Roadhead.

There are a several good castles in the Roadhead area like 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 Roadhead.

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

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

Roadhead has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Roadhead's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Roadhead.

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

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

Roadhead History

There are some historic monuments around Roadhead:

• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
• Four medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
• Towerbrae round cairn
• Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
• The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
• Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
• Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
• Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 230m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
• Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• Crew Castle bastle
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• 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
• Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Carby Hill,settlement Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM1690
• Shiel Knowe round cairn
• Ten medieval shielings on north bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
• Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
• Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 410m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
• Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 130m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Stonehouse Tower bastle
• Two medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne 230m north east of confluence with little Hare Grain
• Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
• The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
• Low Grains bastle