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