Gilsland is a Village in the county of Northumberland.

Gilsland postcode: CA8 7BQ

Retail in Gilsland

There are great places to visit near Gilsland including some great villages, ancient sites, beaches, hiking areas, geological features, castles, ruins, islands, towns, roman sites and historic monuments.

There are a number of villages near Gilsland including Milfield, Craster, and Bamburgh.

Ancient Sites to visit near Gilsland include Milfield North Henge.

Embleton Bay, and Bamburgh Beach are great places to visit near Gilsland if you like beaches.

Don't miss Dunstanburgh, Sycamore Gap, and Hadrian's Wall near Hexham's hiking areas if visiting the area around Gilsland.

The area around Gilsland features a number of interesting geological features including Gull Crag and the Rumble Churn, Greymare Rock, and Sycamore Gap.

There are a number of castles near to Gilsland including Dunstanburgh Castle.

Gilsland has some unmissable ruins nearby like Dunstanburgh Castle, WWII Sandbag Pillbox, and Old Limekiln at Dunstanburgh.

There are a several good islands in the area around Gilsland like Farne Islands.

Hexham, and Berwick-upon-Tweed are great places to visit near Gilsland if you like towns.

Hadrian's Wall near Hexham, and Chesters Roman Fort are great places to visit near Gilsland if you like roman sites.

The area close to Gilsland boasts some of the best historic monuments including Flodden.

Gilsland History

There are some historic monuments around Gilsland:

• Crooks Roman temporary camp
• Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
• Standing stone on Standingstone Rigg
• Throp Roman fortlet
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• The Curricks camp
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
• Sunny Rigg 1 Roman temporary camp
• Carvoran Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the unclassified road to Old Shield and the field boundary west of the fort in wall miles 45 and 46
• Shieling, 500m south west of Spy Crags
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Carvoran Roman fort and the west side of the B6318 road in wall mile 46
• The westernmost of two shielings on the left bank of Small Burn
• High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
• 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
• High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
• Shieling north of Jerrycalf Rigg
• Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
• Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
• Chapel Rigg Roman temporary camp
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Willowford Roman temporary camp
• Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
• The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
• Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
• Two shielings below Crying Crag
• Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
• Shieling at Sundayburn Linn
• Fell End Roman temporary camp and section of the Stanegate Roman road
• Group of shielings, 100m north of Tinkler Crags
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• Shieling, 110m south of Bull Crag
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Underground Launcher Facility
• The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
• The section of Stanegate Roman road from Fell End Roman temporary camp to the track to Old Shield, and the Roman cemetery adjacent to Carvoran Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall, vallum, section of the Stanegate Roman road and a Roman temporary camp between the B6318 road and Poltross Burn in wall miles 46 and 47
• Maiden Way Roman road over Hartleyburn Common and Glendue Fell
• Roachburn Colliery
• Shieling 150m south of Tinkler Crags
• Hazel Gill shieling
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Shieling, 670m south west of Spy Crags
• The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Shieling, 500m east of Stowerhill Plantation
• Hadrian's Wall between the track to Cockmount Hill and Walltown Quarry East in wall miles 43, 44 and 45
• RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
• Shieling 290m south west of Benty Sike
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
• Shieling on N bank of Irthing below Bells Braes
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Thirlwall Castle
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
• Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
• Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
• Hadrian's Wall between Walltown Quarry East and Walltown Quarry West in wall mile 45
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Shielings and later farmstead on Cock Law, 600m north west of Horseholme
• The easternmost of two shielings on the left bank of Small Burn
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• Barron's Pike bowl barrow
• Low Grains bastle
• Shieling 900m north east of Rotheryhaugh
• The vallum between Cockmount Hill and Walltown Quarry West in wall miles 43, 44 and 45
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Blenkinsopp Castle (uninhabited parts)
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot