Crosby Villa is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Crosby Villa postcode: CA15 6TL

Retail in Crosby Villa

There are great places to visit near Crosby Villa 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 Crosby Villa if you like hills.

Crosby Villa has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Crosby Villa features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are some of Crosby Villa best ancient sites to visit near Crosby Villa.

The area around Crosby Villa features a number of interesting 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 Crosby Villa 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.

The area around Crosby Villa 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.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are great places to visit near Crosby Villa if you like rivers and streams.

There are a number of lakes near Crosby Villa including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

There are a several good woodlands in the Crosby Villa area like 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 some of Crosby Villa best towns to visit near Crosby Villa.

Crosby Villa'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.

Crosby Villa'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 Crosby Villa boasts some of the best 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.

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

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

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Crosby Villa if you like bluebell woods.

Nature Reserves to visit near Crosby Villa include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Crosby Villa best airports to visit near Crosby Villa.

Piel Island is one of Crosby Villa's best, nearby islands to visit in Crosby Villa.

Crosby Villa History

There are some historic monuments around Crosby Villa:

• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 1/2 mile (800m) S of Wolsty
• Wardhall Guards Medieval Settlement
• Tute Hill motte
• Enclosure 130m SSE of Old Mawbray
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Netherhall
• Cockermouth Castle: medieval enclosure castle and site of earlier motte and bailey castle
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Romano-British farmstead 250m ENE of Belmont House
• Allonby saltpan
• Brownrigg milefortlet 22, 800m north east of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 105m SE of Old Mawbray
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Beckfoot Roman fort
• Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, 680m WSW of Hailforth, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Westnewton Castle
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Bank Mill tower 15a, 250m north west of Belmont House, 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
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Settlement 450m east of Eweclose
• Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields
• Oval enclosure 120m N of Brownrigg Hall
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Enclosure 125m SE of Old Mawbray
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• Dubmill Point milefortlet 17, 560m WNW of Hill House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast