Retail in Santon Bridge
There are great places to visit near Santon Bridge 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 Santon Bridge.
Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Santon Bridge if you like hiking areas.
Villages to visit near Santon Bridge include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
There are a number of ancient sites near Santon Bridge including 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 great places to visit near Santon Bridge if you like ruins.
Old Mines to visit near Santon Bridge 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.
The area around Santon Bridge boasts some of the best waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Santon Bridge 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 Santon Bridge boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Santon Bridge has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Santon Bridge has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Mountains to visit near Santon Bridge include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
The area around Santon Bridge boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
The area around Santon Bridge features a number of interesting historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
The area around Santon Bridge's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.
The area around Santon Bridge boasts some of the best caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Santon Bridge.
Places near Santon Bridge feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Disused Railway Lines to visit near Santon Bridge include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
There are a several good airports in the Santon Bridge area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
There are a several good islands in the area around Santon Bridge like Piel Island.
Santon Bridge History
There are some historic monuments around Santon Bridge:
- Roman kilns
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlement
- High cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Medieval shielings at Great Cove, 2.68km south of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Gray Borran group of cairns
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- High cross shaft in St John's churchyard
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney
- Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck
- Lank Rigg round cairn
- Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Corney Fell, 680m north east of Charlesground
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Corney Fell, 620m south east of Lambground
- Ravenglass Roman fort
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Monk's Bridge 320m south east of Farthwaite
- Tongue How prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, cemetery and cairnfield, Romano-British farmstead, shieling and lynchets
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Infell Wood medieval enclosure, 550m north west of Scargreen
- Town Bank prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, ring cairn and cairnfield
- Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns
- Drigg Holme packhorse bridge
- High cross in St Paul's churchyard
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Calder Abbey
- Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls Castle