Kirkhouse is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Kirkhouse postcode: CA8 1JP

Retail in Kirkhouse

There are great places to visit near Kirkhouse 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 Kirkhouse features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Kirkhouse area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Kirkhouse features a number of interesting villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Kirkhouse's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle.

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 are great places to visit near Kirkhouse if you like ruins.

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

The area around Kirkhouse features a number of interesting waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

The area around Kirkhouse features a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

The area around Kirkhouse boasts some of the best lakes including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Kirkhouse.

The area around Kirkhouse boasts some of the best towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Mountains to visit near Kirkhouse include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

There are a number of castles near Kirkhouse including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Kirkhouse 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.

Kirkhouse is near some unmissable historic monuments like Fairy Steps,

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Kirkhouse best caves to visit near Kirkhouse.

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

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

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Kirkhouse if you like disused railway lines.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Kirkhouse if you like airports.

There are a several good islands in the area around Kirkhouse like Piel Island.

Kirkhouse History

There are some historic monuments around Kirkhouse:

• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Boothby Roman fort
• Roachburn Colliery
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum and their associated features between Poltross Burn and the River Irthing in wall mile 48
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundaries east of milecastle 50 and the boundary west of Coombe Crag in wall miles 50 and 51
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Throp Roman fortlet
• Willowford Roman temporary camp
• Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50
• 19th century zinc spelter works and 20th century fume works at Tindale and the Great Battery - part of Lord Carlisle's rail system, 290m SW of Riggfoot Farm
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of Coombe Crag and Banks Green Cottage and the road to Lanercost at Banks in wall miles 51 and 52
• Lanercost Bridge
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Castle Hill
• The easternmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• Tower Tye ringwork
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• The westernmost of two shielings below Rowantree Crag
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• 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