Kingstown is a Village in the county of Cumbria.

Kingstown postcode: CA3 0BP

Retail in Kingstown

There are great places to visit near Kingstown including some great hills, hiking areas, villages, towns, lakes, airports, islands, ancient sites, rivers and streams, ruins, woodlands, waterfalls, mountains, castles, historic buildings, historic monuments, caves, old mines, bluebell woods, nature reserves and disused railway lines.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Lad Hows are some of Kingstown best hills to visit near Kingstown.

Hiking Areas to visit near Kingstown include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, Wild Boar Fell, and Over Staveley.

There are a number of villages near Kingstown including Eskdale, Coniston, Askham, Arnside, Burton-in-Kendal, Kirkby-in-Furness, and Troutbeck.

There are a several good towns in the Kingstown area like Sedbergh, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, Kirkby Stephen, and Cockermouth.

Windermere, Wastwater, Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Ullswater, and Haweswater are great places to visit near Kingstown if you like lakes.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Kingstown best airports to visit near Kingstown.

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

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Mayburgh Henge, Gunnerkeld Stone Circle, and Castlehowe Stone Circle are great places to visit near Kingstown if you like ancient sites.

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

Kingstown has some unmissable ruins nearby like Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Shap Abbey, Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, and Old Lime Kiln at Dalton.

Broughton Moor, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, Grubbins Wood, and Brigsteer Park are great places to visit near Kingstown if you like woodlands.

The area around Kingstown boasts some of the best waterfalls including Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Aira Force, Dungeon Ghyll , Pull Beck, Skelwith Force, and Ibbeth Peril.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Kingstown best mountains to visit near Kingstown.

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

Acorn Bank, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Askham Hall, Acorn Bank Watermill, Lowther Mausoleum, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are great places to visit near Kingstown if you like historic buildings.

There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Kingstown like Fairy Steps.

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

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Parrock Quarry, Hodge Close Quarry, Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Horse Crag Quarry, and Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level's old mines if visiting the area around Kingstown.

There are a several good bluebell woods in the Kingstown area like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

There are a number of nature reserves near to Kingstown including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's disused railway lines if visiting the area around Kingstown.

Kingstown History

There are some historic monuments around Kingstown:

• Hadrian's Wall between the M6 motorway and the property boundaries to the east of Houghton Road in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Wall Knowe and Scotland Road including the Roman fort at Stanwix in wall mile 65
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster Row
• Hadrian's Wall between the field boundary to the south of the site of St Andrew's Church and Eden Bank at Beaumont in wall miles 69 and 70
• Hadrian's Wall between Tarraby and Beech Grove, Knowefield in wall miles 64 and 65
• Moss Side 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway west of Kirkandrews Farm and the dismantled railway south east of Burgh by Sands in wall miles 70 and 71
• Rockcliffe Cross
• Park House Roman fort
• Rectangular enclosures 95yds (85m) N of Sceughmire
• Nowtler Hill 2 Roman temporary camp
• Bishop's Dyke
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Mill Beck and the field boundary east of Kirkandrews Farm in wall mile 69
• Town wall, section on West Walls
• Roman camp and signal station 600m south-east of Wreay Hall
• Hadrian's Wall between the east end of Davidson's Banks and road to Grinsdale and vallum between Davidson's Banks and dismantled railway in wall miles 67 and 68
• Boomby Lane 1 and 2 Roman temporary camps
• Roman and medieval town area bounded by Heads Lane West Wall and Blackfriars Street
• Burgh by Sands Roman fort, Beaumont camp, Burgh Castle and Hadrian's Wall from boundary west of churchyard, Beaumont to Burgh Head in wall miles 70 and 71
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the boundaries north of the properties on Whiteclosegate and the field boundary west of Wall Knowe in wall miles 64 and 65
• The Stangate at Crosby Lodge
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway north of Knockupworth Cottage and the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill in wall mile 67
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Scalesceugh Roman kilns
• Beaumont motte castle and section of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 70 including turret 70a
• Hadrian's Wall between Grinsdale and the field boundary south of the site of St Andrew's Church, Kirkandrews on Eden in wall miles 68 and 69
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as Luguvalium
• Carlisle Cathedral precinct
• Nowtler Hill 1 Roman temporary camp
• City wall, NE side
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum in wall mile 66, Stanwix Bank to Stainton
• Hadrian's Wall between Houghton Road and Tarraby in wall mile 64
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64
• Settlement and field system N of Moorhouse
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between Birky Lane at Walby and the east side of the M6 in wall miles 62 and 63
• Prehistoric enclosure and associated field system south east of Ivy Cottage
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64
• Settlement 500yds (460m) SE of Cardew Hill
• Oval enclosure 180m NE of Great Orton
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the dismantled railway south of Boomby Gill and the field boundary south east of Mill Beck in wall mile 68