Retail in Boot
There are great places to visit near Boot 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.
There are a number of hills near Boot including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
Don't miss Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell's hiking areas if visiting the area around Boot.
Boot has some unmissable villages nearby like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Boot has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
Don't miss 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's ruins if visiting the area around Boot.
Old Mines to visit near Boot include 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 Boot boasts some of the best waterfalls including 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 Boot best rivers and streams to visit near Boot.
The area around Boot boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Boot's best nearby woodlands can be found at Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
There are a number of towns near Boot including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Boot has some unmissable mountains nearby like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Boot best castles to visit near Boot.
Boot has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Boot like Fairy Steps.
Caves to visit near Boot include Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Boot best bluebell woods to visit near Boot.
The area around Boot's best nature reserves can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
The area around Boot's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
The area around Boot boasts some of the best airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
The area around Boot's best islands can be found at Piel Island.
Boot History
There are some historic monuments around Boot:
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Corney Fell, 680m north east of Charlesground
- Great Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 710m south east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend Bridge
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield 840m east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Green How West unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement 540m NNE of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric enclosure north of Little Pie, Burnmoor
- Roman kilns
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 290m south east of Low Birker Tarn
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield, funerary cairn and a linear boundary 1000m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, hut circles and a farmstead on Corney Fell, 440m north west of Buckbarow Bridge
- Prehistoric enclosure containing ten clearance cairns south west of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlement
- Gray Borran group of cairns
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Hesk Fell 800m north of Holehouse Bridge
- Prehistoric enclosure, hut circle and adjacent cairnfield east of Whillan Beck, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 730m ENE of Birkerthwaite
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Cairns on Kiln Bank 1/6 to 1/2 mile (270m-800m) SSE of Far Kiln Bank Farmhouse
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m north east of Winds Gate
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Corney Fell, 620m south east of Lambground
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 600m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of Birkerthwaite
- Maiden Castle round cairn, Burnmoor
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge
- 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
- Hardknott Roman fort, bath-house, parade ground and tribunal, 4 Roman roads, Roman quarries and 3 cairns
- Medieval shielings at Great Cove, 2.68km south of Low Gillerthwaite
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Prehistoric hut circle settlement and cairnfield, three medieval settlements and associated field systems, and two shielings north of Crosbythwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Roman road from Wrynose Bottom to Hardknott Ford
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure, 5 stone circles, 10 funerary cairns, 6 stone banks, 2 stone walls, a lynchet and a trackway on Burnmoor
- Cairnfield south of Straighthead Gill, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- Crosby Gill prehistoric cairnfield and field system and a dispersed medieval settlement and associated lynchets 450m west of Crosbythwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Cairnfield including a funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns
- Hesk Fell prehistoric cairnfield and funerary cairn, a linear boundary, and a dispersed medieval settlement and field system 840m west of Horseman Gate
