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