Retail in Waberthwaite
There are great places to visit near Waberthwaite 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 Waberthwaite features a number of interesting 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 Waberthwaite area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Waberthwaite'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 Waberthwaite including 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 great places to visit near Waberthwaite if you like ruins.
The area around Waberthwaite 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.
There are a number of waterfalls near Waberthwaite including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
Waberthwaite's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
Waberthwaite's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
The area around Waberthwaite boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
The area around Waberthwaite features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
The area around Waberthwaite boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Waberthwaite has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are great places to visit near Waberthwaite if you like historic buildings.
Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Waberthwaite if you like historic monuments.
Waberthwaite has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
There are a number of bluebell woods near Waberthwaite including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Places near Waberthwaite feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Places near Waberthwaite feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Waberthwaite best airports to visit near Waberthwaite.
Islands to visit near Waberthwaite include Piel Island.
Waberthwaite History
There are some historic monuments around Waberthwaite:
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Seaton nunnery (site of)
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlement
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Corney Fell, 620m south east of Lambground
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Roman kilns
- High cross in St Paul's churchyard
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls Castle
- High cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Great Grassoms prehistoric cairnfield, four funerary cairns, two medieval dispersed settlements and associated field systems on Bootle Fell
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlement
- High cross shaft in St John's churchyard
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Ravenglass Roman fort
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Corney Fell, 680m north east of Charlesground
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Drigg Holme packhorse bridge
- Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, hut circles and a farmstead on Corney Fell, 440m north west of Buckbarow Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney
