Retail in Askerton
There are great places to visit near Askerton 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.
Askerton has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Lad Hows.
The area around Askerton features a number of interesting hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, Wild Boar Fell, and Over Staveley.
There are a number of villages near Askerton including Eskdale, Coniston, Askham, Arnside, Burton-in-Kendal, Kirkby-in-Furness, and Troutbeck.
The area around Askerton features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, Kirkby Stephen, and Cockermouth.
There are a number of lakes near Askerton including Windermere, Wastwater, Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Ullswater, and Haweswater.
Airports to visit near Askerton include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Piel Island is one of Askerton's best, nearby islands to visit in Askerton.
There are a number of ancient sites near Askerton including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Mayburgh Henge, Gunnerkeld Stone Circle, and Castlehowe Stone Circle.
The area around Askerton boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, River Kent at Kentmere, and River Kent at Basingill.
Ruins to visit near Askerton include Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Shap Abbey, Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, and Old Lime Kiln at Dalton.
There are a several good woodlands in the Askerton area like Broughton Moor, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, Grubbins Wood, and Brigsteer Park.
Waterfalls to visit near Askerton include Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Aira Force, Dungeon Ghyll , Pull Beck, Skelwith Force, and Ibbeth Peril.
Mountains to visit near Askerton include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
There are a number of castles near Askerton including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Askerton's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Acorn Bank, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Askham Hall, Acorn Bank Watermill, Lowther Mausoleum, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
Places near Askerton feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.
There are a number of caves near Askerton including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
The area around Askerton features a number of interesting old mines including Cathedral Quarry, Parrock Quarry, Hodge Close Quarry, Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Horse Crag Quarry, and Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level.
The area around Askerton boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
The area close to Askerton boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Askerton like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Askerton History
There are some historic monuments around Askerton:
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Four medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 310m north west of Stantling Loan
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
- 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
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 410m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 230m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Horse Head medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 50m west of confluence of Gosling Sike and Horsehead Grain
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of seven
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Two medieval shielings 30m north west of Stantling Loan on Greyfell Common
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Boothby Roman fort
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Crew Castle bastle
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
- Lanercost Bridge
- Stantling Loan medieval shieling
- White Lyne round cairn 60m NNW of confluence of Gate Grain and White Lyne
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- 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
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Unfinished high cross shaft on Long Bar 580m north east of Todcrag Loch
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Willowford Roman temporary camp
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- Low Grains bastle
- Ten medieval shielings on north bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Towerbrae round cairn
- The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
- Hazel Gill shieling
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 130m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- Two medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne 230m north east of confluence with little Hare Grain
- 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
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
- 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
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- Shiel Knowe round cairn
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
