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's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
There are a number of hiking areas near Wasdale including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Villages to visit near Wasdale include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Ancient Sites to visit near Wasdale include Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
Wasdale's best nearby ruins can be found at 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.
Wasdale's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.
Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are great places to visit near Wasdale if you like waterfalls.
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.
Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are some of Wasdale best lakes to visit near Wasdale.
Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are some of Wasdale best woodlands to visit near Wasdale.
Towns to visit near Wasdale include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
The area around Wasdale features a number of interesting mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Wasdale's best nearby castles can be found at Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Wasdale 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.
There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Wasdale like Fairy Steps.
Wasdale's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
There are a number of bluebell woods near Wasdale including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Wasdale.
There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Wasdale like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
The area around Wasdale features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Wasdale if you like islands.
Wasdale History
There are some historic monuments around Wasdale:
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend Bridge
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Smithy Beck settlement: Latterbarrow longhouse 860m north west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Maiden Castle round cairn, Burnmoor
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Dale Head copper mine dressing floors and associated buildings 400m north of Dale Head
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure, 5 stone circles, 10 funerary cairns, 6 stone banks, 2 stone walls, a lynchet and a trackway on Burnmoor
- Smithy Beck settlement 1.43km north-west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Woundell Beck medieval settlement, associated field system and cairnfield 890m west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield 840m east of Birkerthwaite
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 600m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m north east of Winds Gate
- Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Roman kilns
- Romano-British farmstead 200m west of Lambing Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and a Romano-British farmstead and its associated field system 1.24 km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite
- Green How West unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement 540m NNE of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 730m ENE of Birkerthwaite
- Gillerthwaite and Dodsgill Beck medieval settlements, associated field systems and cairnfields 790m ENE and 370m north-east of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric enclosure containing three hut circles and eight clearance cairns and an adjacent hut circle and cairnfield north east of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Cairnfield including a funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, Burnmoor
- Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor
- Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Cairnfield south of Straighthead Gill, Burnmoor
- Gray Borran group of cairns
- Prehistoric enclosure containing ten clearance cairns south west of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Smithy Beck prehistoric cairnfield, charcoal burning sites, a bloomery and associated earthworks 1.97km WNW of Low Gillerthwaite
- Roman road from Wrynose Bottom to Hardknott Ford
- Great Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 710m south east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric enclosure, hut circle and adjacent cairnfield east of Whillan Beck, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Prehistoric enclosure north of Little Pie, Burnmoor
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield, funerary cairn and a linear boundary 1000m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 290m south east of Low Birker Tarn
- Smithy Beck settlement 1.10km north-west of Low Gillerthwaite
- Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Prehistoric cairnfield 1.0km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend Bridge
- Dale Head copper mine 300m north east of Dale Head
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Hardknott Roman fort, bath-house, parade ground and tribunal, 4 Roman roads, Roman quarries and 3 cairns
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend Bridge
- Medieval shielings at Great Cove, 2.68km south of Low Gillerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
