Retail in Great Strickland
There are great places to visit near Great Strickland 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.
Great Strickland has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
Hiking Areas to visit near Great Strickland include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
There are a number of villages near Great Strickland including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
There are a several good ancient sites in the Great Strickland area like 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 Great Strickland 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 Great Strickland if you like old mines.
The area around Great Strickland features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Great Strickland features a number of interesting rivers and streams including 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 great places to visit near Great Strickland if you like lakes.
Great Strickland's best nearby woodlands can be found at Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
The area around Great Strickland boasts some of the best towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
There are a number of mountains near Great Strickland including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Great Strickland best castles to visit near Great Strickland.
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 Strickland if you like historic buildings.
Places near Great Strickland feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.
Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Great Strickland if you like caves.
Great Strickland's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Great Strickland's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Great Strickland.
There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Great Strickland like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
There are a number of airports near Great Strickland including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
There are a several good islands in the area around Great Strickland like Piel Island.
Great Strickland History
There are some historic monuments around Great Strickland:
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
- Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
- Bowl barrow 70m south of Iron Hill
- The Countess Pillar
- Crosby Ravensworth churchyard cross
- Cow Green Romano-British settlement and medieval shieling
- Small stone circle 220m south-east of Castlehowe Scar
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 550ft (170m) S of Widewath
- Romano-British settlement and regular aggregate field system north of Yanwath Wood
- Bowl barrow on Wickerslack Moor
- Settlement SW of Naddle Bridge
- Stone bridge, Cawdale Beck
- Round cairn 30m east of Wicker Street Roman Road
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones
- Two standing stones and a round cairn south of Crooklands
- The Giant's Thumb - Anglian high cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Medieval shieling south of Cow Green
- The Giant's Grave - Two Anglian cross-shafts and four hogback stones in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary west of Cow Green
- Burwens Romano-British settlement and associated field system
- Standing stone 180m NNE of Skirsgill
- Romano-British farmstead at Haweswater
- Bowl barrow 80m east of Scarside Plantation
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 335m north of the Cop Stone
- Ewe Close Romano-British enclosed and unenclosed stone hut circle settlements and associated field system, medieval farmstead and Wicker Street Roman road
- Oddendale concentric stone circle
- Bowl barrow 40m north-north-east of High Haber
- Edenhall Cross 230m north west of St Cuthbert's Church
- Clifton Hall tower
- King's Meaburn medieval settlement, part of its associated medieval open field system and Bessygarth Well
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 250yds (230m) SSW of Widewath
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Cow Green and two medieval shielings
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary south of Cow Green
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
- The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
- Roman marching camp 450yds (410m) NE of Brovacum
- Melkinthorpe medieval settlement, part of its associated open field system and the site of Melkinthorpe Hall
- Bowl barrow 850m WSW of Yanwath Woodhouse Farm
- Windrigg Hill round cairn, 440m south of High Murber
- Round cairn 320m north-north-west of Seal Howe
- Bowl barrow on Iron Hill
- Long barrow on Trainford Brow
- Crake Trees tower house
- Cow Green long barrow
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 270m north of The Cop Stone
- Round cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Crosby Gill
- Little Round Table henge
- St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard
- Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield
- Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement and associated field system on Wickerslack Moor
- Bowl barrow 70m west of Lyvennet Beck
- King Arthur's Round Table henge
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham Castle
- Romano-British farmstead and a length of Roman road 800m south of Winderwath
- Ewe Locks Romano-British settlement, Romano-British farmstead and two medieval shielings
- Shap large regular stone circle
- Castlesteads multivallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Eamont Bridge
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common
- Romano-British settlement at Cragside Wood
- Hardendale medieval dispersed settlement and site of medieval monastic grange
- Round cairn on Burn Banks
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary north of Cow Green
- Round cairn west of White Raise
- Roman milestone, 180m north west of Spitals
- Shap Stone Alignment
- Settlement 100yds (90m) SE of Sceugh Farm
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
- Round cairn on Dale Moor
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham Castle
- Round cairn 680m ENE of Dalefoot
- Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
- Skirsgill Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement, Romano-British farmstead, and Romano-British regular aggregate field system
- Strickland's Pele Tower and Penrith Castle
- Slight univallate hillfort in Scarside Plantation
- Dolphenby medieval settlement and part of its associated open field system
- Keld Chapel
- Mayburgh henge
- Linear stone bank on Askham Fell
- Round cairn on White Raise
- Moated site and annexe east of Setterahpark Wood
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone
- Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
