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.

Don't miss Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks's hills if visiting the area around Kirkhouse.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Kirkhouse if you like hiking areas.

Kirkhouse has some unmissable villages nearby like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Kirkhouse if you like ancient sites.

Kirkhouse'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 Kirkhouse 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.

The area around Kirkhouse boasts some of the best waterfalls including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the Kirkhouse area like 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.

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

Don't miss Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen's towns if visiting the area around Kirkhouse.

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

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

The area around Kirkhouse boasts some of the best historic buildings including Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Don't miss Fairy Steps's historic monuments if visiting the area around Kirkhouse.

The area around Kirkhouse features a number of interesting caves including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

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

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Kirkhouse.

The area close to Kirkhouse boasts some of the best disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Kirkhouse's best nearby airports can be found at Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Places near Kirkhouse feature a number of interesting islands including Piel Island.

Kirkhouse History

There are some historic monuments around Kirkhouse:

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