Wetheral is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Wetheral

There are great places to visit near Wetheral 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.

There are a number of hills near Wetheral including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

The area around Wetheral features a number of interesting hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Wetheral if you like villages.

The area around Wetheral features a number of interesting 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 Wetheral 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.

The area around Wetheral features a number of interesting 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.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are great places to visit near Wetheral if you like waterfalls.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Wetheral including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Wetheral's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

There are a several good woodlands in the Wetheral area like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a number of towns near Wetheral including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

The area around Wetheral 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.

There are a number of castles near Wetheral including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Wetheral 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.

Historic Monuments to visit near Wetheral include Fairy Steps.

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

Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Wetheral.

The area close to Wetheral boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around Wetheral's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Wetheral has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Wetheral if you like islands.

Wetheral History

There are some historic monuments around Wetheral:

• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• 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
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Park House Roman fort
• Castle Hill
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• 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