Brampton is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Brampton

There are great places to visit near Brampton 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 Brampton features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Brampton's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a several good villages in the Brampton area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Brampton 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.

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 Brampton if you like ruins.

The area around Brampton boasts some of the best old mines including Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Brampton's best nearby waterfalls can be found at 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 Brampton.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are some of Brampton best lakes to visit near Brampton.

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting 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 great places to visit near Brampton if you like towns.

Brampton'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 number of castles near Brampton 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 Brampton if you like historic buildings.

There are a number of historic monuments near to Brampton including Fairy Steps.

The area around Brampton features a number of interesting caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Brampton's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

The area around Brampton's best nature reserves can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Places near Brampton feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a number of airports near Brampton including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Brampton.

Brampton History

There are some historic monuments around Brampton:

• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Boothby Roman fort
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• 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
• 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
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Lanercost Bridge
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Tower Tye ringwork
• 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
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Castle Hill
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription