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