Retail in Bootle
There are great places to visit near Bootle 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 Bootle best hills to visit near Bootle.
Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Bootle best hiking areas to visit near Bootle.
The area around Bootle boasts some of the best villages including 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 Bootle.
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 are great places to visit near Bootle if you like ruins.
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 some of Bootle best old mines to visit near Bootle.
Bootle has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
Don't miss River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Bootle.
There are a several good lakes in the Bootle area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
The area around Bootle boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Don't miss Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen's towns if visiting the area around Bootle.
There are a several good mountains in the Bootle area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Bootle's best nearby castles can be found at Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
There are a number of historic buildings near Bootle 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 a great place to visit close to Bootle if you like historic monuments.
Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Bootle best caves to visit near Bootle.
Bootle has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Bootle is near some unmissable nature reserves like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,
Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Bootle.
There are a number of airports near Bootle including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
There are a number of islands near to Bootle including Piel Island.
Bootle History
There are some historic monuments around Bootle:
- Prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, hut circles and a farmstead on Corney Fell, 440m north west of Buckbarow Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Drigg Holme packhorse bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Corney Fell, 680m north east of Charlesground
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Giant's Grave standing stones, Kirksanton
- Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls Castle
- High cross shaft in St John's churchyard
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- Seaton nunnery (site of)
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- Stone circle 410m SSW of Great Knott, Lacra
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Stone circle and funerary cairn 440m south west of Great Knott, Lacra
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell
- Ravenglass Roman fort
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Lacra Old Kirk medieval dispersed settlement and associated lynchets 800m and 830m NNE of Bankfield House
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Stone circle west of Great Knott, Lacra
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Corney Fell, 620m south east of Lambground
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Roman kilns
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Two stone circles, a stone avenue and a stone alignment at Great Knott, Lacra
- Great Grassoms prehistoric cairnfield, four funerary cairns, two medieval dispersed settlements and associated field systems on Bootle Fell
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
