Retail in Helton
There are great places to visit near Helton 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.
Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are some of Helton best hills to visit near Helton.
There are a number of hiking areas near Helton 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 Helton if you like villages.
There are a number of ancient sites near Helton including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.
Helton's best nearby ruins can be found at 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.
The area around Helton features a number of interesting old mines including Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.
Waterfalls to visit near Helton include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
Helton's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Helton.
The area around Helton features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Helton has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
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 Helton.
Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are great places to visit near Helton if you like castles.
Historic Buildings to visit near Helton include Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
There are a number of historic monuments near to Helton including Fairy Steps.
Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Helton.
Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Helton.
Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Helton.
Disused Railway Lines to visit near Helton include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Don't miss Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport's airports if visiting the area around Helton.
Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Helton if you like islands.
Helton History
There are some historic monuments around Helton:
- Eamont Bridge
- Keld Chapel
- Four funerary cairns and a surrounding cairnfield on Threepow Raise
- Stone bridge, Cawdale Beck
- Round cairn west of Riddingleys Top, Askham Fell
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
- Romano-British settlement at Cragside Wood
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell and four adjacent stones
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham Castle
- Towtop Kirk early Christian enclosure
- King Arthur's Round Table henge
- Round cairn north of Four Stones Hill
- Linear stone bank on Askham Fell
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 270m north of The Cop Stone
- Round cairn 285m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Romano-British farmstead 800m north-east of High House
- Skirsgill Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement, Romano-British farmstead, and Romano-British regular aggregate field system
- Blencow Old Hall moated tower house
- Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield
- Round cairn on High Raise
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
- Round cairn 50m north east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- The Giant's Thumb - Anglian high cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Round cairn 490m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Round cairn on Burn Banks
- Round cairn on Askham Fell, 335m north of the Cop Stone
- Round cairn west of White Raise
- Long cairn 330m east of Mossthorn
- Standing stone 180m NNE of Skirsgill
- Castlesteads multivallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Moated site east of Newton Reigny
- The Giant's Grave - Two Anglian cross-shafts and four hogback stones in St Andrew's churchyard, Penrith
- Shap large regular stone circle
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 550ft (170m) S of Widewath
- Round cairn 580m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Maiden Castle univallate prehistoric defended enclosure
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
- Romano-British settlement and regular aggregate field system north of Yanwath Wood
- Two standing stones and a round cairn south of Crooklands
- Settlement 100yds (90m) SE of Sceugh Farm
- Dolphenby medieval settlement and part of its associated open field system
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common
- Round cairn 475m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Edenhall Cross 230m north west of St Cuthbert's Church
- Round cairn 515m south east of White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Castle Crag slight univallate hillfort
- Romano-British farmstead at Haweswater
- Selside Pike round cairn
- Round cairn 280m south-east of The Cockpit stone circle
- Long cairn 370m ESE of Mossthorn Farm
- Moated site and annexe south of Gale Bay
- Long barrow on Trainford Brow
- St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
- Moated site of Dacre Castle
- Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
- The Countess Pillar
- Round cairn 520m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Little Round Table henge
- Sewborrans standing stone 400m south west of Sewborwens
- Bridge over Heltondale Beck 250yds (230m) SSW of Widewath
- Shap Stone Alignment
- Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone
- Round cairn 680m ENE of Dalefoot
- The Cockpit stone circle and seven adjacent clearance cairns, Moor Divock
- Roman marching camp 450yds (410m) NE of Brovacum
- Two standing stones north-west of Four Stones Hill
- White Raise round cairn, Askham Fell
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham Castle
- Settlement SW of Naddle Bridge
- Catterlen Hall tower house
- Round cairn 660m north east of The Cockpit, Askham Fell
- Melkinthorpe medieval settlement, part of its associated open field system and the site of Melkinthorpe Hall
- Ring cairn east of Threepow Raise
- Dunmallard small multivallate hillfort
- Round cairn on Heughscar Hill
- Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
- Site of Catterlen Old Hall
- Small stone circle on Swarth Fell
- Enclosure containing four clearance cairns and a stone bank west of Four Stones Hill
- Clifton Hall tower
- Strickland's Pele Tower and Penrith Castle
- Bowl barrow 850m WSW of Yanwath Woodhouse Farm
- Round cairn on White Raise
- Askham Fell stone alignment
- Round cairn 490m ENE of Rough Hill Tarn
- Bowl barrow 80m east of Scarside Plantation
- Moated site and annexe east of Setterahpark Wood
- The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
- Two round cairns 415m and 420m NNE of The Cockpit, Moor Divock
- Bowl barrow 350m north east of The Wreay
- Round cairn west of enclosure on Four Stones Hill
- Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
- Slight univallate hillfort in Scarside Plantation
- Mayburgh henge
