Brisco is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Brisco postcode: CA4 0QS

Retail in Brisco

There are great places to visit near Brisco 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 Brisco best hills to visit near Brisco.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Brisco area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Brisco boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Brisco's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

The area around Brisco boasts some of the best 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.

Brisco has some unmissable old mines nearby like Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

There are a number of waterfalls near Brisco including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Brisco including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Brisco has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are some of Brisco best woodlands to visit near Brisco.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Brisco best towns to visit near Brisco.

There are a several good mountains in the Brisco area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Brisco boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

The area around Brisco features a number of interesting historic buildings 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 Brisco if you like historic monuments.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Brisco best caves to visit near Brisco.

Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Brisco.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Brisco.

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

Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Brisco.

There are a several good islands in the area around Brisco like Piel Island.

Brisco History

There are some historic monuments around Brisco:

• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Polygonal prehistoric enclosure and associated field system at Petterilbank Cottages
• Rockcliffe Cross
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• City wall, NE side
• Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Petteril Green Romano-British farmstead, associated field system and two trackways
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway north of Knockupworth Cottage and the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill in wall mile 67
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill and the field boundary south east of Mill Beck in wall mile 68
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundaries north of the properties on Whiteclosegate and the field boundary west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65
• Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp
• Bishop's Dyke
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Park House Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Davidson's Banks and road to Grinsdale and vallum between Davidson's Banks and dismantled railway in wall miles 67 and 68