Denton Mill is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Denton Mill postcode: CA8 2QU

Retail in Denton Mill

There are great places to visit near Denton Mill 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.

Denton Mill has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Denton Mill area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are some of Denton Mill best villages to visit near Denton Mill.

The area around Denton Mill features a number of interesting 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.

The area around Denton Mill 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.

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 Denton Mill.

Waterfalls to visit near Denton Mill include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Denton Mill's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Denton Mill boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

The area around Denton Mill features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Towns to visit near Denton Mill include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

There are a number of mountains near Denton Mill including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a several good castles in the Denton Mill area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Historic Buildings to visit near Denton Mill include Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

The area close to Denton Mill boasts some of the best historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

Denton Mill 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 Denton Mill best bluebell woods to visit near Denton Mill.

Nature Reserves to visit near Denton Mill include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

The area around Denton Mill's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Denton Mill's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a several good islands in the area around Denton Mill like Piel Island.

Denton Mill History

There are some historic monuments around Denton Mill:

• Group of shielings, 100m north of Tinkler Crags
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Castle Hill
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Boothby Roman fort
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Lanercost Bridge
• Towerbrae round cairn
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
• The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Throp Roman fortlet
• Shieling 150m south of Tinkler Crags
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
• Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks and the road to Garthside in wall miles 52, 53 and 54
• Shieling, 110m south of Bull Crag
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• Roachburn Colliery
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Willowford Roman temporary camp
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west