Skinburness is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Skinburness postcode: CA7 4RA

Retail in Skinburness

There are great places to visit near Skinburness 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.

Skinburness has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Hiking Areas to visit near Skinburness include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Skinburness boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Skinburness 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.

There are a several good ruins in the Skinburness area like 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.

Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are some of Skinburness best old mines to visit near Skinburness.

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

The area around Skinburness boasts some of the best 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 Skinburness features a number of interesting lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

The area around Skinburness boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

The area around Skinburness features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Skinburness's best nearby mountains can be found at Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of castles near Skinburness including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Historic Buildings to visit near Skinburness 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.

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

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

The area around Skinburness features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

There are a number of nature reserves near to Skinburness including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

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

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Skinburness if you like islands.

Skinburness History

There are some historic monuments around Skinburness:

• Mote of Annan, motte-and-bailey castle, 70m SSW of Moat House Secular: motte SM702
• Enclosure 105m SE of Old Mawbray
• Enclosure 125m SE of Old Mawbray
• Moated site of Wolsty Castle
• Cardurnock milefortlet (Mf 5)
• St Mungo's Castle
• Pasture House (milefortlet 3), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Prehistoric enclosure and trackway south of Wolsty Hall
• Hurkledale, enclosure 400m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM11740
• Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, 680m WSW of Hailforth, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Pasture House turret 3a
• Silloth Golf Course tower 12b, 410m north west of Heatherbank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Blitterlees (milefortlet 12), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Cardurnock (tower 4b) and earlier ditch system and patrol road, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields
• Enclosure 130m SSE of Old Mawbray
• Oval enclosure 120m N of Brownrigg Hall
• Herd Hill North (tower 3b), 175m north east of the sheep wash, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a
• Annan Hill Roman camp Roman: camp SM4273
• Annan old graveyard, recumbent grave marker 45m ENE of town hall Crosses and carved stones: inscribed stone SM12183
• Wolsty North tower 13a, 500m south west of Wolsty Farm, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Herd Hill (milefortlet 4) and associated parallel banks and ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Silloth Golf Course tower 12a, 670m WNW of Blitterlees Farm, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Hayknowes, settlement 180m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12092
• St Mary's Abbey, Holmcultram
• Palisade ditches, part of Roman frontier defences along Cumbrian coast, Roman camp & road and part of Romano-British field system,250m north of Silloth Farm
• Wolsty South tower 13b, 200m WNW of New House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Dubmill Point milefortlet 17, 560m WNW of Hill House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Campfield (tower 2b) and associated parallel ditches and Roman road, 350m south west of Campfield Farm part of Roman frontier defences along Cumbrian coast
• Prehistoric enclosure and hut circle, a Romano-British enclosure, and a Romano-British farmstead and associated field system north of Wolsty Hall
• Bank Mill tower 15a, 250m north west of Belmont House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Beckfoot Roman fort
• Enclosure 1/2 mile (800m) S of Wolsty
• Romano-British farmstead 250m ENE of Belmont House
• Skinburness (milefortlet 9), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, and earlier Roman camp