Walton - Cumbria is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Walton - Cumbria

There are great places to visit near Walton - Cumbria 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 Walton - Cumbria.

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 Walton - Cumbria.

Walton - Cumbria has some unmissable villages nearby like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Walton - Cumbria boasts some of the best 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.

There are a several good ruins in the Walton - Cumbria area like 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 Walton - Cumbria 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.

There are a number of waterfalls near Walton - Cumbria 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 Walton - Cumbria if you like rivers and streams.

Lakes to visit near Walton - Cumbria include Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Walton - Cumbria.

The area around Walton - Cumbria boasts some of the best towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Walton - Cumbria if you like mountains.

Walton - Cumbria 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 Walton - Cumbria if you like historic buildings.

Places near Walton - Cumbria feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Walton - Cumbria.

Bluebell Woods to visit near Walton - Cumbria include Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Walton - Cumbria if you like nature reserves.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Walton - Cumbria's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Walton - Cumbria.

Walton - Cumbria's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Walton - Cumbria if you like islands.

Walton - Cumbria History

There are some historic monuments around Walton - Cumbria:

• Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Boothby Roman fort
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Castle Hill
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• 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
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• 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
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
• Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
• Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Tower Tye ringwork
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Towerbrae round cairn
• Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
• Low Grains bastle
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Lanercost Bridge
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall