Retail in Birkby
There are great places to visit near Birkby 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.
The area around Birkby features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
There are a several good hiking areas in the Birkby area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
The area around Birkby features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are some of Birkby best ancient sites to visit near Birkby.
The area around Birkby features a number of interesting ruins including 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.
Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are great places to visit near Birkby if you like old mines.
Birkby has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Birkby best rivers and streams to visit near Birkby.
Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are great places to visit near Birkby if you like lakes.
Birkby has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Towns to visit near Birkby include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Birkby.
Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Birkby best castles to visit near Birkby.
There are a number of historic buildings near Birkby including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
Fairy Steps is one of Birkby's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Birkby.
Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Birkby if you like caves.
There are a number of bluebell woods near Birkby including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Places near Birkby feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
The area close to Birkby boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Birkby best airports to visit near Birkby.
Piel Island is one of Birkby's best, nearby islands to visit in Birkby.
Birkby History
There are some historic monuments around Birkby:
- Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls Castle
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric enclosure containing three hut circles and eight clearance cairns and an adjacent hut circle and cairnfield north east of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, hut circles and a farmstead on Corney Fell, 440m north west of Buckbarow Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Corney Fell, 680m north east of Charlesground
- Great Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 710m south east of Birkerthwaite
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Ravenglass Roman fort
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 600m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Infell Wood medieval enclosure, 550m north west of Scargreen
- High cross in St Paul's churchyard
- Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- High cross shaft in St John's churchyard
- Lath Rigg prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 600m NNW of Thwaite Yeat
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Hesk Fell 800m north of Holehouse Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- High cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Cairnfield including a funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, Burnmoor
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlement
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Green How West unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement 540m NNE of Birkerthwaite
- Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney
- Roman kilns
- Seaton nunnery (site of)
- Prehistoric cairnfield, ring cairn, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 670m east of Hodgewife Well
- Drigg Holme packhorse bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Corney Fell, 620m south east of Lambground
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Prehistoric enclosure north of Little Pie, Burnmoor
- Great Grassoms prehistoric cairnfield, four funerary cairns, two medieval dispersed settlements and associated field systems on Bootle Fell
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Maiden Castle round cairn, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Gray Borran group of cairns
- Cairnfield south of Straighthead Gill, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure, 5 stone circles, 10 funerary cairns, 6 stone banks, 2 stone walls, a lynchet and a trackway on Burnmoor
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Prehistoric enclosure containing ten clearance cairns south west of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside
