Great Corby is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Great Corby postcode: CA4 8LT

Retail in Great Corby

There are great places to visit near Great Corby 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 Great Corby boasts some of the best hills including 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 some of Great Corby best hiking areas to visit near Great Corby.

The area around Great Corby boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Great Corby if you like ancient sites.

There are a several good ruins in the Great Corby 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.

Great Corby 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.

Great Corby's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Great Corby include River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are some of Great Corby best lakes to visit near Great Corby.

The area around Great Corby features a number of interesting woodlands including 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 Great Corby.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Great Corby best mountains to visit near Great Corby.

Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are great places to visit near Great Corby if you like castles.

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 great places to visit near Great Corby if you like historic buildings.

Fairy Steps is one of Great Corby's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Great Corby.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Great Corby best caves to visit near Great Corby.

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

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

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

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Great Corby best airports to visit near Great Corby.

Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Great Corby.

Great Corby History

There are some historic monuments around Great Corby:

• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• 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
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Castle Hill
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Park House Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription