Broughton Moor is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Broughton Moor

There are great places to visit near Broughton Moor including some great hills, hiking areas, villages, towns, lakes, airports, islands, ancient sites, rivers and streams, ruins, woodlands, waterfalls, mountains, castles, historic buildings, historic monuments, caves, old mines, bluebell woods, nature reserves and disused railway lines.

The area around Broughton Moor boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Lad Hows.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, Wild Boar Fell, and Over Staveley are great places to visit near Broughton Moor if you like hiking areas.

There are a several good villages in the Broughton Moor area like Eskdale, Coniston, Askham, Arnside, Burton-in-Kendal, Kirkby-in-Furness, and Troutbeck.

The area around Broughton Moor features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, Kirkby Stephen, and Cockermouth.

Broughton Moor's best nearby lakes can be found at Windermere, Wastwater, Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Ullswater, and Haweswater.

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

The area close to Broughton Moor boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

Don't miss Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Mayburgh Henge, Gunnerkeld Stone Circle, and Castlehowe Stone Circle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Broughton Moor.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, River Kent at Kentmere, and River Kent at Basingill are some of Broughton Moor best rivers and streams to visit near Broughton Moor.

The area around Broughton Moor boasts some of the best ruins including Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Shap Abbey, Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, and Old Lime Kiln at Dalton.

Woodlands to visit near Broughton Moor include Broughton Moor, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, Grubbins Wood, and Brigsteer Park.

Broughton Moor has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Aira Force, Dungeon Ghyll , Pull Beck, Skelwith Force, and Ibbeth Peril.

The area around Broughton Moor boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Broughton Moor's best nearby castles can be found at Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

The area around Broughton Moor features a number of interesting historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Askham Hall, Acorn Bank Watermill, Lowther Mausoleum, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Historic Monuments to visit near Broughton Moor include Fairy Steps.

There are a number of caves near Broughton Moor including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

Broughton Moor has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

Broughton Moor is near some unmissable disused railway lines like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

Broughton Moor History

There are some historic monuments around Broughton Moor:

• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Defended enclosure at Salterbeck
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• Jane Pit, a 19th century coal mine adjacent to the Sports Ground, Mossbay
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Allonby saltpan
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Netherhall
• Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified house
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Burrow Walls Roman fort