Talkin is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Talkin postcode: CA8 1LF

Retail in Talkin

There are great places to visit near Talkin 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.

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

Talkin has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Talkin.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Talkin if you like ancient sites.

Ruins to visit near Talkin include 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 Talkin 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.

The area around Talkin features a number of interesting waterfalls including 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 Talkin including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are some of Talkin best lakes to visit near Talkin.

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

Talkin has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Mountains to visit near Talkin include 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 Talkin area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Don't miss Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct's historic buildings if visiting the area around Talkin.

Talkin is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Caves to visit near Talkin include Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Talkin's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Talkin.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Talkin.

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

There are a number of islands near to Talkin including Piel Island.

Talkin History

There are some historic monuments around Talkin:

• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• 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
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• Boothby Roman fort
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House
• Castle Hill
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Lanercost Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Broomrigg A: large irregular stone circle and associated stone alignment in Broomrigg Plantation, 820m south east of Street House
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• 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