Crosby-on-Eden is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Crosby-on-Eden

There are great places to visit near Crosby-on-Eden 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 Crosby-on-Eden if you like hills.

Hiking Areas to visit near Crosby-on-Eden include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Crosby-on-Eden boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Crosby-on-Eden's best nearby ancient sites can be found at 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 Crosby-on-Eden 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.

Crosby-on-Eden'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.

The area around Crosby-on-Eden boasts some of the best waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Crosby-on-Eden 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 Crosby-on-Eden including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

Crosby-on-Eden's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Crosby-on-Eden best mountains to visit near Crosby-on-Eden.

There are a several good castles in the Crosby-on-Eden area like 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 some of Crosby-on-Eden best historic buildings to visit near Crosby-on-Eden.

Fairy Steps is one of Crosby-on-Eden's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Crosby-on-Eden.

Caves to visit near Crosby-on-Eden include Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Crosby-on-Eden best bluebell woods to visit near Crosby-on-Eden.

The area close to Crosby-on-Eden boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Places near Crosby-on-Eden feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a several good airports in the Crosby-on-Eden area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a number of islands near to Crosby-on-Eden including Piel Island.

Crosby-on-Eden History

There are some historic monuments around Crosby-on-Eden:

• Park House Roman fort
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Castle Hill
• City wall, NE side
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 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
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• 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 and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• 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