Scaleby is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Scaleby

There are great places to visit near Scaleby 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.

There are a number of hills near Scaleby including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Hiking Areas to visit near Scaleby include 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 Scaleby if you like villages.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Scaleby area like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Scaleby'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.

The area around Scaleby 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.

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

The area around Scaleby 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.

There are a several good lakes in the Scaleby area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Scaleby.

Towns to visit near Scaleby 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 great places to visit near Scaleby if you like mountains.

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

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are great places to visit near Scaleby if you like historic buildings.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Scaleby like Fairy Steps.

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Scaleby.

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

The area close to Scaleby boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Scaleby if you like disused railway lines.

There are a several good airports in the Scaleby area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Scaleby is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Scaleby History

There are some historic monuments around Scaleby:

• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• 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
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• 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 and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• 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 the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Woodslee,burial mound 250m SW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: mound (ritual or funerary) SM4722
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• City wall, NE side
• Liddel Strength motte and bailey castle and fortified tower house
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Castle Hill
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• 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
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• 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
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription