Faugh is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Faugh postcode: CA8 9EN

Retail in Faugh

There are great places to visit near Faugh 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.

Faugh has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Faugh area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a several good villages in the Faugh area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Faugh if you like ancient sites.

Faugh'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.

The area around Faugh boasts some of the best 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.

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 Faugh.

Faugh has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

There are a number of lakes near Faugh including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Woodlands to visit near Faugh include Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a several good towns in the Faugh area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Faugh has some unmissable mountains nearby like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a several good castles in the Faugh area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Faugh's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Places near Faugh feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

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

There are a number of bluebell woods near Faugh including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Faugh if you like nature reserves.

There are a number of disused railway lines near to Faugh including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Airports to visit near Faugh include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Faugh.

Faugh History

There are some historic monuments around Faugh:

• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Castle Hill
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks and the road to Garthside in wall miles 52, 53 and 54
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• 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
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Broomrigg A: large irregular stone circle and associated stone alignment in Broomrigg Plantation, 820m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Boothby Roman fort
• Lanercost Bridge
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56