Ewanrigg is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Ewanrigg postcode: CA15 8LG

Retail in Ewanrigg

There are great places to visit near Ewanrigg 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.

There are a number of hills near Ewanrigg including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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

Ewanrigg has some unmissable villages nearby like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around Ewanrigg 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.

There are a several good ruins in the Ewanrigg area like 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.

Ewanrigg has some unmissable old mines nearby 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.

Ewanrigg has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like 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 Ewanrigg if you like rivers and streams.

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

Woodlands to visit near Ewanrigg include 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 Ewanrigg best towns to visit near Ewanrigg.

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 Ewanrigg.

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

The area around Ewanrigg 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.

Ewanrigg is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Ewanrigg.

Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Ewanrigg.

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

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

There are a several good airports in the Ewanrigg area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a number of islands near to Ewanrigg including Piel Island.

Ewanrigg History

There are some historic monuments around Ewanrigg:

• Small multivallate hillfort on Swarthy Hill
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Sea Brows (milefortlet 23), 500m south west of Bank End part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Jane Pit, a 19th century coal mine adjacent to the Sports Ground, Mossbay
• Burrow Walls Roman fort
• Enclosure 130m SSE of Old Mawbray
• Enclosure 125m SE of Old Mawbray
• Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort
• Swarthy Hill North tower 20b, 460m south west of Blue Dial, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 1/4 mile (400m) N of Hill Farm
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacement
• Dubmill Point milefortlet 17, 560m WNW of Hill House, 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
• Swarthy Hill milefortlet 21, 80m south of the Saltpans, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified house
• Medieval site in Netherhall Park, left bank of River Ellen
• Defended enclosure at Salterbeck
• 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill
• Maryport Golf Course tower 22a, 350m north of the Cemetery Chapel, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Settlement W of Birkby
• Settlement 1/4 mile (400m) S of Canonby Hall
• Medieval standing cross in St Oswald's churchyard
• Oval enclosure 120m N of Brownrigg Hall
• Netherhall
• Calva Hall Bridge
• Allonby saltpan
• Enclosure 105m 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
• Little Clifton open heap coke producing bases and associated slag heap, 220m north of Oldfield Bridge
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Maryport (Alavna) Roman fort, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast, its associated vicus and a length of Roman road
• Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, 680m WSW of Hailforth, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Brownrigg North tower 21b, 830m north west of Canonby Hall, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg
• Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road