Retail in Askerton
There are great places to visit near Askerton 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 some of Askerton best hills to visit near Askerton.
The area around Askerton boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Villages to visit near Askerton include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Don't miss Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Askerton.
Ruins to visit near Askerton include 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.
There are a several good old mines in the Askerton area like Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.
Waterfalls to visit near Askerton include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Askerton 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.
Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are great places to visit near Askerton if you like lakes.
The area around Askerton boasts some of the best woodlands including 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 Askerton best towns to visit near Askerton.
Askerton's best nearby mountains can be found at 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 Askerton 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 Askerton if you like historic buildings.
Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Askerton if you like historic monuments.
Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Askerton if you like caves.
Askerton has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Askerton's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Askerton.
Disused Railway Lines to visit near Askerton include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Askerton if you like airports.
Piel Island is one of Askerton's best, nearby islands to visit in Askerton.
Askerton History
There are some historic monuments around Askerton:
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
- Medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 310m north west of Stantling Loan
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- 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
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- Ten medieval shielings on north bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- 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
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Unfinished high cross shaft on Long Bar 580m north east of Todcrag Loch
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of seven
- Towerbrae round cairn
- Horse Head medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 50m west of confluence of Gosling Sike and Horsehead Grain
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
- Boothby Roman fort
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- 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
- Stantling Loan medieval shieling
- Two medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne 230m north east of confluence with little Hare Grain
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Willowford Roman temporary camp
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- Low Grains bastle
- 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
- White Lyne round cairn 60m NNW of confluence of Gate Grain and White Lyne
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- Lanercost Bridge
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Crew Castle bastle
- Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 230m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Four medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 410m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Hazel Gill shieling
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 130m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Shiel Knowe round cairn
- Two medieval shielings 30m north west of Stantling Loan on Greyfell Common
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
