Anthorn is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Anthorn postcode: CA7 5AH

Retail in Anthorn

There are great places to visit near Anthorn including some great hills, hiking areas, villages, towns, lakes, airports, islands, ancient sites, rivers and streams, ruins, woodlands, waterfalls, mountains, castles, historic buildings, historic monuments, caves, old mines, bluebell woods, nature reserves and disused railway lines.

The area around Anthorn boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Lad Hows.

Hiking Areas to visit near Anthorn include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, Wild Boar Fell, and Over Staveley.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Askham, Arnside, Burton-in-Kendal, Kirkby-in-Furness, and Troutbeck's villages if visiting the area around Anthorn.

The area around Anthorn boasts some of the best towns including Sedbergh, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, Kirkby Stephen, and Cockermouth.

Don't miss Windermere, Wastwater, Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Ullswater, and Haweswater's lakes if visiting the area around Anthorn.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Anthorn if you like airports.

The area around Anthorn's best islands can be found at Piel Island.

The area around Anthorn boasts some of the best ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Mayburgh Henge, Gunnerkeld Stone Circle, and Castlehowe Stone Circle.

Anthorn's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, River Kent at Kentmere, and River Kent at Basingill.

Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Shap Abbey, Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, and Old Lime Kiln at Dalton are great places to visit near Anthorn if you like ruins.

Anthorn's best nearby woodlands can be found at Broughton Moor, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, Grubbins Wood, and Brigsteer Park.

There are a number of waterfalls near Anthorn including Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Aira Force, Dungeon Ghyll , Pull Beck, Skelwith Force, and Ibbeth Peril.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Anthorn if you like mountains.

Anthorn has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Don't miss Acorn Bank, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Askham Hall, Acorn Bank Watermill, Lowther Mausoleum, and Smardale Gill Viaduct's historic buildings if visiting the area around Anthorn.

The area close to Anthorn boasts some of the best historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

Anthorn has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Anthorn's best nearby old mines can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Parrock Quarry, Hodge Close Quarry, Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Horse Crag Quarry, and Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level.

Bluebell Woods to visit near Anthorn include Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Places near Anthorn feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Anthorn if you like disused railway lines.

Anthorn History

There are some historic monuments around Anthorn:

• Burnbrae, enclosure 270m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12189
• Drumburgh Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall between Burgh Marsh and Westfield House in wall miles 76 and 77
• Cardurnock (tower 4b) and earlier ditch system and patrol road, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Kirkbride Roman fort, part of associated vicus and length of Roman road around, 370m south east of Whitrigg Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the watercourse 400m south east of Glasson and the access road to Glendale caravan park in wall miles 76 and 77
• Biglands House (milefortlet 1) and associated parallel ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Annan Hill Roman camp Roman: camp SM4273
• Hadrian's Wall between Apple Garth, Westfield, and the dismantled railway in wall mile 77
• Woodhead,enclosure 200m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM4090
• Hadrian's Wall between the dismantled railway and the access road to Glendale caravan park in wall mile 77
• Hayknowes, settlement 180m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12092
• Herd Hill North (tower 3b), 175m north east of the sheep wash, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• The Roman fort and associated civil settlement and a medieval tower house at Bowness on Solway at the west end of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 80
• Pasture House (milefortlet 3), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Annan old graveyard, recumbent grave marker 45m ENE of town hall Crosses and carved stones: inscribed stone SM12183
• St Mary's Abbey, Holmcultram
• Campfield (tower 2b) and associated parallel ditches and Roman road, 350m south west of Campfield Farm part of Roman frontier defences along Cumbrian coast
• Herd Hill (milefortlet 4) and associated parallel banks and ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Hadrian's Wall north of Kirkland House, Port Carlisle in wall mile 78
• Gleningle, enclosure 80m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM12001
• Pasture House turret 3a
• Blacketlees Cottages, enclosure 75m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM12027
• Cardurnock milefortlet (Mf 5)
• Knockcross Roman temporary camp at Grey Havens
• Cardurnock Marsh turret 4a
• Prehistoric enclosure and trackway, and a Romano-British farmstead WNW of Fingland
• Skinburness (milefortlet 9), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, and earlier Roman camp
• Mote of Annan, motte-and-bailey castle, 70m SSW of Moat House Secular: motte SM702
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the track south of Kirkland House and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79
• Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the access road to Glendale caravan park and the track south of Kirkland House in wall miles 77 and 78