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