Retail in Lees Hill
There are great places to visit near Lees Hill 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 Lees Hill boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
The area around Lees Hill features a number of interesting hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
The area around Lees Hill boasts some of the best villages including Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
Lees Hill'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.
There are a number of ruins near Lees Hill 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.
The area around Lees Hill boasts some of the best 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.
Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force are some of Lees Hill best waterfalls to visit near Lees Hill.
Lees Hill's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
Don't miss Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater's lakes if visiting the area around Lees Hill.
The area around Lees Hill boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are some of Lees Hill best towns to visit near Lees Hill.
There are a several good mountains in the Lees Hill area like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are great places to visit near Lees Hill if you like castles.
Lees Hill 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.
Don't miss Fairy Steps's historic monuments if visiting the area around Lees Hill.
There are a number of caves near Lees Hill including Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Don't miss Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood's bluebell woods if visiting the area around Lees Hill.
Places near Lees Hill feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
There are a number of disused railway lines near to Lees Hill including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
There are a several good airports in the Lees Hill area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Lees Hill is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,
Lees Hill History
There are some historic monuments around Lees Hill:
- High Grains medieval pele tower and three shielings 200m west of High Grains Farm
- Crew Castle bastle
- Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
- Bastle at Upper Denton
- Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; one of a group of seven
- Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
- Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
- RAF Spadeadam: Greymare Hill Missile Test Area
- 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 Hill medieval dispersed settlement and an early post-medieval settlement 400m east of Ashycroft
- Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
- Two shielings on Foulbog Rigg; part of a group of seven
- Low Grains bastle
- Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
- Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
- RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
- Dollerline medieval dispersed settlement 250m north of Bush Farm
- Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
- Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate 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
- Braes Pele medieval tower and shielings 350m east of Borderrigg
- Maiden Way Roman road from B6318 to 450m SW of High House, Gillalees Beacon signal station and Beacon Pasture early post-medieval dispersed settlement
- Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
- Hennel Cleugh bowl barrow, 785m south west of High Grains Farm
- 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
- Stone hut circle and round cairn 800m east of Woodhead
- Towerbrae round cairn
- The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
- The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
- Boothby Roman fort
- RAF Spadeadam: Priorlancy Rigg, Engine Test Area
- Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
- Stone hut circle 740m east of Woodhead
- Early post-medieval dispersed settlement on Mount Hulie
- Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
- 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
- The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
- Tower Tye ringwork
- The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
- Round cairn 610m south east of High Grains
- 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
- Antonstown medieval dispersed settlement 450m south east of Crew Farm
- Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
- Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
- Barron's Pike bowl barrow
- Lanercost Bridge
- Shieling on Foulbog Rigg; the easternmost of a group of seven
- 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
- RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
- The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
- Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
- Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Grey Hill 930m south east of Ashycroft
- St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
- Roachburn Colliery
- Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
- Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
- Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
- Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
- Medieval shieling on Espy Bank 35m south of Esby Well
- Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
- Nether Denton Roman fort, associated vicus and length of Stanegate Roman road
- 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
- Three shielings on Foulbog Rigg; the westernmost of a group of seven
- Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
- Hazel Gill shieling
- Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
- Castle Hill
- Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
- High Grains bastle and shieling 130m west of High Grains Farm
- Medieval shieling 800m east of Woodhead
- The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
- Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
- Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
- Moated site at Upper Denton
