Retail in Lanercost
There are great places to visit near Lanercost 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.
There are a number of hills near Lanercost including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
Lanercost's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Lanercost if you like villages.
The area around Lanercost features a number of interesting 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.
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 Lanercost if you like ruins.
Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry are great places to visit near Lanercost if you like old mines.
There are a number of waterfalls near Lanercost including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Lanercost 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.
Lanercost's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are some of Lanercost best woodlands to visit near Lanercost.
Lanercost has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Lanercost has some unmissable mountains nearby like 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 Lanercost including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Historic Buildings to visit near Lanercost include Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.
The area around Lanercost's best historic monuments can be found at Fairy Steps.
Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Lanercost if you like caves.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Lanercost best bluebell woods to visit near Lanercost.
Lanercost is near some unmissable nature reserves like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Lanercost's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Lanercost.
The area around Lanercost boasts some of the best airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Piel Island is one of Lanercost's best, nearby islands to visit in Lanercost.
Lanercost History
There are some historic monuments around Lanercost:
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
- 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
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- Lanercost Bridge
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Castle Hill
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- Tower Tye ringwork
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Moated site at Upper Denton
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Boothby Roman fort
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- 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
- Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
- Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
- Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- 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
- Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
- 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
- Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east 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
- Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
- Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
- Roachburn Colliery
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- Hallsteads Iron Age camp
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
- Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
- Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
- Towerbrae round cairn
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
