Cumwhinton is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Cumwhinton postcode: CA4 8DH

Retail in Cumwhinton

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

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

Cumwhinton's best nearby villages can be found at Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Cumwhinton boasts some of the best ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Cumwhinton's best nearby ruins can be found at 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.

Don't miss Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry's old mines if visiting the area around Cumwhinton.

Waterfalls to visit near Cumwhinton include 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 Cumwhinton.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are great places to visit near Cumwhinton if you like lakes.

The area around Cumwhinton boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

The area around Cumwhinton features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Cumwhinton.

Castles to visit near Cumwhinton include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Don't miss Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct's historic buildings if visiting the area around Cumwhinton.

Places near Cumwhinton feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

The area around Cumwhinton features a number of interesting caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

The area around Cumwhinton features a number of interesting bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

The area close to Cumwhinton boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

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

Places near Cumwhinton feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.

Cumwhinton History

There are some historic monuments around Cumwhinton:

• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Petteril Green Romano-British farmstead, associated field system and two trackways
• 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
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• 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 and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Park House Roman fort
• 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
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Polygonal prehistoric enclosure and associated field system at Petterilbank Cottages
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• 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
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• City wall, NE side
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Castle Hill
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60