Dearham is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Dearham

There are great places to visit near Dearham 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 Dearham features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

The area around Dearham features a number of interesting hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a several good villages in the Dearham area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

There are a number of ancient sites near Dearham including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

Ruins to visit near Dearham include 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.

Old Mines to visit near Dearham include 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 Dearham features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the Dearham area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

There are a several good lakes in the Dearham area like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

There are a several good woodlands in the Dearham 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 Dearham best towns to visit near Dearham.

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

Don't miss Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther)'s castles if visiting the area around Dearham.

The area around Dearham features a number of interesting 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.

Historic Monuments to visit near Dearham include Fairy Steps.

There are a several good caves in the Dearham area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Dearham best bluebell woods to visit near Dearham.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Dearham's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Dearham.

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

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Dearham if you like airports.

Dearham is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Dearham History

There are some historic monuments around Dearham:

• Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, 680m WSW of Hailforth, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Tute Hill motte
• Wardhall Guards Medieval Settlement
• Enclosure 125m SE of Old Mawbray
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Dubmill Point milefortlet 17, 560m WNW of Hill House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified house
• Enclosure 130m SSE of Old Mawbray
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Roman forts at Papcastle and part of the vicus
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Netherhall
• Allonby saltpan
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Cockermouth Castle: medieval enclosure castle and site of earlier motte and bailey castle
• Oval enclosure 120m N of Brownrigg Hall
• 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
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, 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
• Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln
• Enclosure 105m SE of Old Mawbray
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Westnewton Castle
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, 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
• Settlement W of Birkby