Retail in Bewcastle
There are great places to visit near Bewcastle 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.
Bewcastle has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
Bewcastle's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Bewcastle if you like villages.
There are a several good ancient sites in the Bewcastle area like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
There are a several good ruins in the Bewcastle area like 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.
Bewcastle'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 Bewcastle features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Bewcastle 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 some of Bewcastle best lakes to visit near Bewcastle.
There are a number of woodlands near Bewcastle including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
The area around Bewcastle boasts some of the best towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Mountains to visit near Bewcastle include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
The area around Bewcastle features a number of interesting castles including 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 Bewcastle if you like historic buildings.
The area around Bewcastle's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.
Bewcastle's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Bewcastle best bluebell woods to visit near Bewcastle.
There are a number of nature reserves near to Bewcastle including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Disused Railway Lines to visit near Bewcastle include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
There are a number of airports near Bewcastle including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Places near Bewcastle feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.
Bewcastle History
There are some historic monuments around Bewcastle:
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Two medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne 230m north east of confluence with little Hare Grain
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
- Ten medieval shielings on north bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Hazel Gill shieling
- Low Grains bastle
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Willowford Roman temporary camp
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Two medieval shielings 30m north west of Stantling Loan on Greyfell Common
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- Horse Head medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 50m west of confluence of Gosling Sike and Horsehead Grain
- Four medieval shielings on south bank of White Lyne overlooking confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- Stantling Loan medieval shieling
- Medieval shieling on Greyfell Common 310m north west of Stantling Loan
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- Towerbrae round cairn
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Unfinished high cross shaft on Long Bar 580m north east of Todcrag Loch
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 230m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- White Lyne round cairn 60m NNW of confluence of Gate Grain and White Lyne
- The Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- 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
- Crew Castle bastle
- 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
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost 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
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- Shiel Knowe round cairn
- Shieling 210m north of Irthing Head
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- 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
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- RAF Spadeadam: Blue Streak Underground Launcher Facility
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 130m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Medieval shieling on south bank of White Lyne 410m WSW of confluence with Little Hare Grain
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
