Roweltown is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Roweltown postcode: CA6 6LB

Retail in Roweltown

There are great places to visit near Roweltown 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 Roweltown boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

The area around Roweltown features a number of interesting hiking areas including 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 some of Roweltown best villages to visit near Roweltown.

Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are some of Roweltown best ancient sites to visit near Roweltown.

Roweltown'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.

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

The area around Roweltown boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Roweltown has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

There are a number of woodlands near Roweltown 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 Roweltown best towns to visit near Roweltown.

The area around Roweltown features a number of interesting mountains including 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 some of Roweltown best castles to visit near Roweltown.

The area around Roweltown 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.

The area close to Roweltown boasts some of the best historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

There are a several good caves in the Roweltown area like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Roweltown if you like bluebell woods.

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

There are a number of disused railway lines near to Roweltown including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

There are a several good airports in the Roweltown area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

Piel Island is one of Roweltown's best, nearby islands to visit in Roweltown.

Roweltown History

There are some historic monuments around Roweltown:

• Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln
• 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
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
• Tower Tye ringwork
• 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
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• 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
• Lanercost Bridge
• Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
• Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
• Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
• The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Stonehouse Tower bastle
• Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• Shiel Knowe round cairn
• Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• The vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57