Retail in Butterwick
There are great places to visit near Butterwick 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 great places to visit near Butterwick if you like hills.
There are a number of hiking areas near Butterwick including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
There are a number of villages near Butterwick including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
There are a number of ancient sites near Butterwick including 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 Butterwick 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.
There are a several good old mines in the Butterwick area 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.
Butterwick has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like 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 Butterwick including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
Butterwick's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Butterwick.
There are a several good towns in the Butterwick area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Butterwick if you like mountains.
Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are great places to visit near Butterwick if you like castles.
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 some of Butterwick best historic buildings to visit near Butterwick.
There are a number of historic monuments near to Butterwick including Fairy Steps.
Butterwick has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Butterwick best bluebell woods to visit near Butterwick.
Nature Reserves to visit near Butterwick include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Butterwick if you like disused railway lines.
Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Butterwick.
Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Butterwick.
Butterwick History
There are some historic monuments around Butterwick:
- Skirsgill Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement, Romano-British farmstead, and Romano-British regular aggregate field system
- Round cairn west of Riddingleys Top, Askham Fell
- Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
- Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham Castle
- The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
- Stone bridge, Cawdale Beck
- Roman marching camp 450yds (410m) NE of Brovacum
- Round cairn north of Four Stones Hill
- Sewborrans standing stone 400m south west of Sewborwens
- Romano-British farmstead 800m north-east of High House
- Round cairn 660m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- The Giant's Thumb - Anglian high cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Moated site of Dacre Castle
- King Arthur's Round Table henge
- Round cairn 490m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Standing stone 180m NNE of Skirsgill
- Askham Fell stone alignment
- Settlement 100yds (90m) SE of Sceugh Farm
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
- Little Round Table henge
- Buck Park deerpound
- Slight univallate hillfort in Scarside Plantation
- Long cairn 370m ESE of Mossthorn Farm
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common
- Linear stone bank on Askham Fell
- Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Moated site and annexe east of Setterahpark Wood
- Settlement SW of Naddle Bridge
- Bowl barrow 850m WSW of Yanwath Woodhouse Farm
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
- Keld Chapel
- Round cairn west of enclosure on Four Stones Hill
- Castlesteads multivallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Melkinthorpe medieval settlement, part of its associated open field system and the site of Melkinthorpe Hall
- Small stone circle on Swarth Fell
- Romano-British settlement at Cragside Wood
- Round cairn on Heughscar Hill
- Two round cairns 415m and 420m NNE of The Cockpit, Moor Divock
- Ring cairn east of Threepow Raise
- Four funerary cairns and a surrounding cairnfield on Threepow Raise
- Enclosure containing four clearance cairns and a stone bank west of Four Stones Hill
- Bowl barrow 80m east of Scarside Plantation
- Moated site and annexe south of Gale Bay
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone
- Round cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn
- Round cairn on Burn Banks
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 250yds (230m) SSW of Widewath
- Romano-British settlement and regular aggregate field system north of Yanwath Wood
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones
- Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
- Bowl barrow 350m north east of The Wreay
- Round cairn 475m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 335m north of the Cop Stone
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham Castle
- White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Shap Stone Alignment
- Round cairn 580m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Round cairn on High Raise
- Eamont Bridge
- Round cairn 280m south-east of The Cockpit stone circle
- The Giant's Grave - Two Anglian cross-shafts and four hogback stones in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Round cairn on White Raise
- Selside Pike round cairn
- Long barrow on Trainford Brow
- Castle Crag slight univallate hillfort
- Mayburgh henge
- Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield
- Shap large regular stone circle
- Towtop Kirk early Christian enclosure
- Round cairn 515m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Round cairn west of White Raise
- The Cockpit stone circle and seven adjacent clearance cairns, Moor Divock
- Dunmallard small multivallate hillfort
- The Countess Pillar
- Round cairn 50m north east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Two standing stones north-west of Four Stones Hill
- Round cairn 285m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Romano-British farmstead at Haweswater
- Maiden Castle univallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Round cairn 680m ENE of Dalefoot
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
- Clifton Hall tower
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
- Two standing stones and a round cairn south of Crooklands
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 270m north of The Cop Stone
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 550ft (170m) S of Widewath
- Strickland's Pele Tower and Penrith Castle
