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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are great places to visit near Wetheral if you like hills.

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 Wetheral.

Villages to visit near Wetheral include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

There are a number of ancient sites near Wetheral including 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 Wetheral 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.

There are a number of old mines near Wetheral 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.

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 Wetheral.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Wetheral best rivers and streams to visit near Wetheral.

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

The area around Wetheral boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Wetheral best towns to visit near Wetheral.

Wetheral's best nearby mountains can be found at Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Castles to visit near Wetheral include 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 Wetheral if you like historic buildings.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Wetheral like Fairy Steps.

Wetheral's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

The area around Wetheral boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Wetheral.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Wetheral.

There are a number of airports near Wetheral including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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

Wetheral History

There are some historic monuments around Wetheral:

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