Crosby-on-Eden is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Crosby-on-Eden

There are great places to visit near Crosby-on-Eden 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 Crosby-on-Eden boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

The area around Crosby-on-Eden boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of villages near Crosby-on-Eden including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Crosby-on-Eden 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 some of Crosby-on-Eden best ruins to visit near Crosby-on-Eden.

The area around Crosby-on-Eden features a number of interesting 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.

The area around Crosby-on-Eden boasts some of the best waterfalls including 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 Crosby-on-Eden.

Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Crosby-on-Eden.

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

There are a several good towns in the Crosby-on-Eden area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Mountains to visit near Crosby-on-Eden include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Crosby-on-Eden best castles to visit near Crosby-on-Eden.

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 Crosby-on-Eden best historic buildings to visit near Crosby-on-Eden.

Fairy Steps is one of Crosby-on-Eden's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Crosby-on-Eden.

Crosby-on-Eden has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Bluebell Woods to visit near Crosby-on-Eden include Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Crosby-on-Eden.

There are a number of disused railway lines near to Crosby-on-Eden including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around Crosby-on-Eden features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a number of islands near to Crosby-on-Eden including Piel Island.

Crosby-on-Eden History

There are some historic monuments around Crosby-on-Eden:

• City wall, NE side
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Park House Roman fort
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• 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
• Castle Hill
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• 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 the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• 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
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Town wall, section on West Walls