Heads Nook is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Heads Nook postcode: CA8 9AN

Retail in Heads Nook

There are great places to visit near Heads Nook 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 Heads Nook including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Heads Nook if you like villages.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are some of Heads Nook best ancient sites to visit near Heads Nook.

The area around Heads Nook features a number of interesting ruins 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.

There are a several good old mines in the Heads Nook area 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.

Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are great places to visit near Heads Nook if you like waterfalls.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Heads Nook including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Heads Nook has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Heads Nook has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Towns to visit near Heads Nook include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Heads Nook if you like mountains.

The area around Heads Nook boasts some of the best castles 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 great places to visit near Heads Nook if you like historic buildings.

Heads Nook is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

The area around Heads Nook boasts some of the best caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

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

There are a several good disused railway lines in the area around Heads Nook like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a number of airports near Heads Nook including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Heads Nook is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,

Heads Nook History

There are some historic monuments around Heads Nook:

• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Broomrigg A: large irregular stone circle and associated stone alignment in Broomrigg Plantation, 820m south east of Street House
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• 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 Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Castle Hill
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Boothby Roman fort
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• 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
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Park House Roman fort
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Lanercost Bridge
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon