Walby is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Walby postcode: CA6 4QL

Retail in Walby

There are great places to visit near Walby 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 great places to visit near Walby if you like hills.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Walby if you like hiking areas.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Walby.

Walby 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.

The area around Walby boasts some of the best ruins including 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.

Old Mines to visit near Walby 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.

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 Walby.

Walby'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.

There are a several good lakes in the Walby area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Woodlands to visit near Walby include Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Towns to visit near Walby include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

There are a several good mountains in the Walby area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Walby.

Walby has some unmissable historic buildings nearby 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.

Places near Walby feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

Walby has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

There are a several good bluebell woods in the Walby area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

The area around Walby's best nature reserves can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Places near Walby feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around Walby features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Places near Walby feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.

Walby History

There are some historic monuments around Walby:

• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Park House Roman fort
• City wall, NE side
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundaries north of the properties on Whiteclosegate and the field boundary west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum from A6071 to The Cottage in the case of the Wall, and to the road to Oldwall, for the vallum, in wall miles 57, 58 and 59
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.