Farlam is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Farlam

There are great places to visit near Farlam 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.

Hills to visit near Farlam include Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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 Farlam.

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

Farlam has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

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 are great places to visit near Farlam if you like ruins.

Don't miss Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry's old mines if visiting the area around Farlam.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are some of Farlam best waterfalls to visit near Farlam.

The area around Farlam boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Farlam features a number of interesting lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Farlam has some unmissable woodlands nearby like 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 Farlam best towns to visit near Farlam.

Farlam 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 Farlam 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 great places to visit near Farlam if you like historic buildings.

There are a number of historic monuments near to Farlam including Fairy Steps.

There are a number of caves near Farlam including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

There are a number of nature reserves near to Farlam including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Places near Farlam feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Farlam best airports to visit near Farlam.

The area close to Farlam boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

Farlam History

There are some historic monuments around Farlam:

• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• 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
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• 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
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Roachburn Colliery
• Boothby Roman fort
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Lanercost Bridge
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Castle Hill
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• 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
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• 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
• 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
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin