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 has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

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

Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are some of Milton best villages to visit near Milton.

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.

Don't miss 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's ruins if visiting the area around Milton.

There are a number of old mines near Milton 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.

There are a several good waterfalls in the Milton area like 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.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are great places to visit near Milton if you like lakes.

The area around Milton 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 great places to visit near Milton if you like towns.

The area around Milton boasts some of the best mountains including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

Milton has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Historic Buildings to visit near Milton 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.

Places near Milton feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are great places to visit near Milton if you like caves.

Milton has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Milton like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Milton is near some unmissable disused railway lines like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

Milton has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

The area around Milton's best islands can be found at Piel Island.

Milton History

There are some historic monuments around Milton:

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