How is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

How postcode: CA8 9JY

Retail in How

There are great places to visit near How 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 great places to visit near How if you like hills.

How has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of villages near How including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

The area around How boasts some of the best ancient sites including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

The area around How boasts some of the best 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.

Old Mines to visit near How include 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 How include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

How has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

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

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

How has some unmissable towns nearby like 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 some of How best mountains to visit near How.

How has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

How has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like 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 How including Fairy Steps.

There are a several good caves in the How area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

How's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

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

The area around How features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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

How History

There are some historic monuments around How:

• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Lanercost Bridge
• 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 Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Watchclose Roman temporary camp
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Broomrigg G: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 730m south east of Street House
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Broomrigg A: large irregular stone circle and associated stone alignment in Broomrigg Plantation, 820m 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.
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• St Constantine's cells (Wetheral Caves) and rock-cut Roman inscription
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Wetheral Priory gatehouse and length of medieval wall
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Grey Yauds stone circle
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Slight univallate hillfort on Barrock Fell
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Broomrigg F: two hut circles in Broomrigg Plantation, 900m south east of Street House
• Broomrigg P: shieling in Broomrigg Plantation, 775m south east of Street House
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Castle Hill
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks and the road to Garthside in wall miles 52, 53 and 54
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Broomrigg D: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 760m north west of Far Shields
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Park House Roman fort
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Broomrigg C: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 1010m south east of Street House
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Broomrigg B1: small stone circle in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Boothby Roman fort
• Broomrigg I: standing stone in Broomrigg Plantation, 920m south east of Street House
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57