Milton is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Milton postcode: CA8 1HX

Retail in Milton

There are great places to visit near Milton 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.

Milton's best nearby hills can be found at Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

There are a number of hiking areas near Milton including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Villages to visit near Milton include Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Milton has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like 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 Milton 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.

Milton's best nearby old mines can be found at Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

There are a number of waterfalls near Milton including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

Milton'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.

There are a number of lakes near Milton including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

The area around Milton boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

Milton has some unmissable towns nearby like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

There are a number of mountains near Milton including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Castles to visit near Milton include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

The area around Milton features a number of interesting 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.

Historic Monuments to visit near Milton include Fairy Steps.

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Milton.

Milton's best nearby bluebell woods can be found at Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

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

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Milton include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Airports to visit near Milton include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

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

Milton History

There are some historic monuments around Milton:

• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Eight Roman inscriptions in the Roman quarry in Combcrag Wood, 350m south of Hadrian's Wall
• RAF Spadeadam: Component Test Area
• Pigeon Clint Written Rock: Roman quarry inscription
• Written Rock of Gelt: Roman quarry inscriptions
• Roachburn Colliery
• Bastle at Upper Denton
• Prehistoric cup marked stone 380m south of Gillalees
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Medieval fishponds and moat at Denton Hall
• St Cuthbert's Church, 100m north west of Upper Denton Farm
• The Stonehouse bastle, 240m north of Denton Foot
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Lanercost Bridge
• 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
• Cairns on Cardunneth Pike
• 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 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
• Foresthead lime kilns, quarry, associated buildings and part of the rail transportation system
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Romano-British farmstead and post-medieval farmstead at Watch Hill
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Bowl barrow 760m SSE of Old Church
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain Castle
• RAF Spadeadam: British Oxygen Corporation Air Separation Plant
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Boothby Roman fort
• 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
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Roman signal station on Mains Rigg
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Castle Hill
• Moated site at Upper Denton
• Hallsteads Iron Age camp
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• 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