Retail in Wasdale
There are great places to visit near Wasdale 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.
Wasdale has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
Wasdale has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
There are a number of villages near Wasdale including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Wasdale 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 Wasdale features a number of interesting 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 Wasdale 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.
Wasdale has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Wasdale boasts some of the best rivers and streams including 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 Wasdale area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
There are a number of woodlands near Wasdale including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Wasdale has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
The area around Wasdale 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.
The area around Wasdale boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
There are a number of historic buildings near Wasdale including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
Fairy Steps is one of Wasdale's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Wasdale.
There are a several good caves in the Wasdale area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Wasdale best bluebell woods to visit near Wasdale.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Wasdale if you like nature reserves.
Places near Wasdale feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Airports to visit near Wasdale include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Piel Island is one of Wasdale's best, nearby islands to visit in Wasdale.
Wasdale History
There are some historic monuments around Wasdale:
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Smithy Beck settlement: Latterbarrow longhouse 860m north west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Cairnfield including a funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, Burnmoor
- Maiden Castle round cairn, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck
- Dale Head copper mine dressing floors and associated buildings 400m north of Dale Head
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of Birkerthwaite
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure, 5 stone circles, 10 funerary cairns, 6 stone banks, 2 stone walls, a lynchet and a trackway on Burnmoor
- 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 associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Smithy Beck prehistoric cairnfield, charcoal burning sites, a bloomery and associated earthworks 1.97km WNW of Low Gillerthwaite
- Dale Head copper mine 300m north east of Dale Head
- Medieval shielings at Great Cove, 2.68km south of Low Gillerthwaite
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Roman kilns
- Green How West unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement 540m NNE of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield 1.0km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 290m south east of Low Birker Tarn
- Gray Borran group of cairns
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Prehistoric enclosure containing three hut circles and eight clearance cairns and an adjacent hut circle and cairnfield north east of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Cairnfield south of Straighthead Gill, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m north east of Winds Gate
- Roman road from Wrynose Bottom to Hardknott Ford
- Prehistoric cairnfield 840m east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric enclosure north of Little Pie, Burnmoor
- Great Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 710m south east of Birkerthwaite
- Woundell Beck medieval settlement, associated field system and cairnfield 890m west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend Bridge
- Hardknott Roman fort, bath-house, parade ground and tribunal, 4 Roman roads, Roman quarries and 3 cairns
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric enclosure, hut circle and adjacent cairnfield east of Whillan Beck, Burnmoor
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 600m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Gillerthwaite and Dodsgill Beck medieval settlements, associated field systems and cairnfields 790m ENE and 370m north-east of Low Gillerthwaite
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Smithy Beck settlement 1.10km north-west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and a Romano-British farmstead and its associated field system 1.24 km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield, funerary cairn and a linear boundary 1000m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric enclosure containing ten clearance cairns south west of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of Birkerthwaite
- Romano-British farmstead 200m west of Lambing Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 730m ENE of Birkerthwaite
- Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge
- Smithy Beck settlement 1.43km north-west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor
