Farlam is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Farlam

There are great places to visit near Farlam 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.

Farlam's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Farlam if you like hiking areas.

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

The area around Farlam 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 number of ruins near Farlam 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.

Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are great places to visit near Farlam if you like old mines.

There are a number of waterfalls near Farlam 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 Farlam if you like rivers and streams.

Lakes to visit near Farlam include Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

There are a several good woodlands in the Farlam area like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Don't miss Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen's towns if visiting the area around Farlam.

There are a several good mountains in the Farlam area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of castles near Farlam including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are some of Farlam best historic buildings to visit near Farlam.

Farlam is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Farlam has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

There are a number of bluebell woods near Farlam including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Places near Farlam feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Farlam's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Farlam.

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

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

Farlam History

There are some historic monuments around Farlam:

• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• 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
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Roachburn Colliery
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Castle Hill
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Boothby Roman fort
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• 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
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Lanercost Bridge
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• 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
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• 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