Hethersgill is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Retail in Hethersgill

There are great places to visit near Hethersgill 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 Hethersgill features a number of interesting 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 Hethersgill best hiking areas to visit near Hethersgill.

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are some of Hethersgill best villages to visit near Hethersgill.

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 Hethersgill best ancient sites to visit near Hethersgill.

Hethersgill'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.

Hethersgill's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Hethersgill.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are great places to visit near Hethersgill if you like rivers and streams.

Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Hethersgill.

There are a several good woodlands in the Hethersgill area like Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Hethersgill best towns to visit near Hethersgill.

The area around Hethersgill boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Hethersgill features a number of interesting castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Hethersgill's best nearby historic buildings can be found at 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 several good historic monuments in the area around Hethersgill like Fairy Steps.

There are a number of caves near Hethersgill including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Hethersgill if you like bluebell woods.

Nature Reserves to visit near Hethersgill include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Hethersgill include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

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

The area around Hethersgill's best islands can be found at Piel Island.

Hethersgill History

There are some historic monuments around Hethersgill:

• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Baron's Dike and Birky Lane at Walby, in wall miles 60, 61 and 62.
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• 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
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Castle Hill
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps