Retail in Great Strickland
There are great places to visit near Great Strickland including some great hills, hiking areas, villages, towns, lakes, airports, islands, ancient sites, rivers and streams, ruins, woodlands, waterfalls, mountains, castles, historic buildings, historic monuments, caves, old mines, bluebell woods, nature reserves and disused railway lines.
Don't miss Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Lad Hows's hills if visiting the area around Great Strickland.
Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, Wild Boar Fell, and Over Staveley are some of Great Strickland best hiking areas to visit near Great Strickland.
Great Strickland's best nearby villages can be found at Eskdale, Coniston, Askham, Arnside, Burton-in-Kendal, Kirkby-in-Furness, and Troutbeck.
Sedbergh, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, Kirkby Stephen, and Cockermouth are great places to visit near Great Strickland if you like towns.
Windermere, Wastwater, Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Ullswater, and Haweswater are great places to visit near Great Strickland if you like lakes.
The area around Great Strickland boasts some of the best airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Don't miss Piel Island's islands if visiting the area around Great Strickland.
The area around Great Strickland boasts some of the best ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Mayburgh Henge, Gunnerkeld Stone Circle, and Castlehowe Stone Circle.
There are a several good rivers and streams in the Great Strickland area like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, River Kent at Kentmere, and River Kent at Basingill.
Great Strickland has some unmissable ruins nearby like Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Shap Abbey, Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, and Old Lime Kiln at Dalton.
The area around Great Strickland features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, Grubbins Wood, and Brigsteer Park.
Great Strickland's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Aira Force, Dungeon Ghyll , Pull Beck, Skelwith Force, and Ibbeth Peril.
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 Great Strickland.
Great Strickland has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
The area around Great Strickland features a number of interesting historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Askham Hall, Acorn Bank Watermill, Lowther Mausoleum, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
There are a number of historic monuments near to Great Strickland including Fairy Steps.
There are a number of caves near Great Strickland including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
There are a several good old mines in the Great Strickland area like Cathedral Quarry, Parrock Quarry, Hodge Close Quarry, Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Horse Crag Quarry, and Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level.
There are a several good bluebell woods in the Great Strickland area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Nature Reserves to visit near Great Strickland include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Great Strickland's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Great Strickland.
Great Strickland History
There are some historic monuments around Great Strickland:
- Dolphenby medieval settlement and part of its associated open field system
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
- Clifton Hall tower
- Oddendale concentric stone circle
- Round cairn on White Raise
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 250yds (230m) SSW of Widewath
- Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
- Edenhall Cross 230m north west of St Cuthbert's Church
- Strickland's Pele Tower and Penrith Castle
- St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard
- Crake Trees tower house
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones
- Round cairn 30m east of Wicker Street Roman Road
- Bowl barrow 850m WSW of Yanwath Woodhouse Farm
- Medieval shieling south of Cow Green
- Bowl barrow 80m east of Scarside Plantation
- King's Meaburn medieval settlement, part of its associated medieval open field system and Bessygarth Well
- Shap Stone Alignment
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham Castle
- Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement and associated field system on Wickerslack Moor
- Cow Green Romano-British settlement and medieval shieling
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 550ft (170m) S of Widewath
- Bowl barrow 70m south of Iron Hill
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 335m north of the Cop Stone
- The Countess Pillar
- Stone bridge, Cawdale Beck
- Round cairn west of White Raise
- King Arthur's Round Table henge
- Romano-British farmstead at Haweswater
- Keld Chapel
- Mayburgh henge
- The Giant's Thumb - Anglian high cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Linear stone bank on Askham Fell
- Ewe Close Romano-British enclosed and unenclosed stone hut circle settlements and associated field system, medieval farmstead and Wicker Street Roman road
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 270m north of The Cop Stone
- Round cairn on Burn Banks
- Round cairn 320m north-north-west of Seal Howe
- Bowl barrow 40m north-north-east of High Haber
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary north of Cow Green
- Windrigg Hill round cairn, 440m south of High Murber
- Bowl barrow 70m west of Lyvennet Beck
- Melkinthorpe medieval settlement, part of its associated open field system and the site of Melkinthorpe Hall
- The Giant's Grave - Two Anglian cross-shafts and four hogback stones in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Cow Green long barrow
- Bowl barrow on Iron Hill
- Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield
- Round cairn 680m ENE of Dalefoot
- Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
- Long barrow on Trainford Brow
- Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
- Castlesteads multivallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Settlement SW of Naddle Bridge
- Slight univallate hillfort in Scarside Plantation
- Shap large regular stone circle
- Settlement 100yds (90m) SE of Sceugh Farm
- Ewe Locks Romano-British settlement, Romano-British farmstead and two medieval shielings
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Crosby Gill
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
- Romano-British settlement at Cragside Wood
- Roman marching camp 450yds (410m) NE of Brovacum
- Small stone circle 220m south-east of Castlehowe Scar
- Crosby Ravensworth churchyard cross
- Little Round Table henge
- Round cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn
- Moated site and annexe east of Setterahpark Wood
- Hardendale medieval dispersed settlement and site of medieval monastic grange
- Round cairn on Dale Moor
- Two standing stones and a round cairn south of Crooklands
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Cow Green and two medieval shielings
- Bowl barrow on Wickerslack Moor
- Eamont Bridge
- Burwens Romano-British settlement and associated field system
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary south of Cow Green
- Skirsgill Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement, Romano-British farmstead, and Romano-British regular aggregate field system
- Roman milestone, 180m north west of Spitals
- The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
- Romano-British settlement and regular aggregate field system north of Yanwath Wood
- Standing stone 180m NNE of Skirsgill
- Romano-British farmstead and a length of Roman road 800m south of Winderwath
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham Castle
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary west of Cow Green
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
