Roweltown is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Roweltown postcode: CA6 6LB

Retail in Roweltown

There are great places to visit near Roweltown 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 Roweltown if you like hills.

Roweltown 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 Roweltown include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Roweltown features a number of interesting 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.

Roweltown'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.

Old Mines to visit near Roweltown include Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

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

There are a number of rivers and streams near Roweltown including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Roweltown has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are great places to visit near Roweltown if you like towns.

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

The area around Roweltown boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Roweltown 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.

Roweltown is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

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

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

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

The area around Roweltown's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Roweltown has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

The area close to Roweltown boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

Roweltown History

There are some historic monuments around Roweltown:

• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
• Lanercost Bridge
• Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• 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
• 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
• The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Stonehouse Tower bastle
• Boothby Roman fort
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Shiel Knowe round cairn
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church