Retail in Upper Denton
There are great places to visit near Upper Denton 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.
The area around Upper Denton boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
There are a several good hiking areas in the Upper Denton area like 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 Upper Denton if you like villages.
Upper Denton has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
Upper Denton has some unmissable ruins nearby 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.
The area around Upper Denton 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.
Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Upper Denton.
Rivers and Streams to visit near Upper Denton include River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
The area around Upper Denton features a number of interesting lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
The area around Upper Denton features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Upper Denton has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
The area around Upper Denton features a number of interesting mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Upper Denton has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
There are a several good historic buildings in the Upper Denton area like Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
Historic Monuments to visit near Upper Denton include Fairy Steps.
Upper Denton's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
There are a several good bluebell woods in the Upper Denton area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Upper Denton.
There are a number of disused railway lines near to Upper Denton including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Upper Denton if you like airports.
Piel Island is one of Upper Denton's best, nearby islands to visit in Upper Denton.
Upper Denton History
There are some historic monuments around Upper Denton:
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
- Shieling north of Jerrycalf Rigg
- Lanercost Bridge
- Standing stone on Standingstone Rigg
- The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Carvoran Roman fort and the west side of the B6318 road in wall mile 46
- Maiden Way Roman road over Hartleyburn Common and Glendue Fell
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the unclassified road to Old Shield and the field boundary west of the fort in wall miles 45 and 46
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Shieling 150m south of Tinkler Crags
- 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
- Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Towerbrae round cairn
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Blenkinsopp Castle (uninhabited parts)
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Low Grains bastle
- Roachburn Colliery
- Thirlwall Castle
- Throp Roman fortlet
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Shielings and later farmstead on Cock Law, 600m north west of Horseholme
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry East and Walltown Quarry West in wall mile 45
- 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
- Willowford Roman temporary camp
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- 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
- Crooks Roman temporary camp
- RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Underground Launcher Facility
- The Curricks camp
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Two shielings below Crying Crag
- Shieling, 110m south of Bull Crag
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Hazel Gill shieling
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Group of shielings, 100m north of Tinkler Crags
- Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp
- Hadrian's Wall, vallum, section of the Stanegate Roman road and a Roman temporary camp between the B6318 road and Poltross Burn in wall miles 46 and 47
- The section of Stanegate Roman road from Fell End Roman temporary camp to the track to Old Shield, and the Roman cemetery adjacent to Carvoran Roman fort
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
