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 features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Roweltown has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer's villages if visiting the area around Roweltown.

The area around Roweltown boasts some of the best 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.

Roweltown has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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 several good old mines in the Roweltown area like Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Waterfalls to visit near Roweltown include Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are great places to visit near Roweltown if you like rivers and streams.

Roweltown's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

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

The area around Roweltown features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Don't miss Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell's mountains if visiting the area around Roweltown.

There are a several good castles in the Roweltown area like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

The area around Roweltown 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.

Don't miss Fairy Steps's historic monuments if visiting the area around Roweltown.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Roweltown best caves to visit near Roweltown.

Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are some of Roweltown best bluebell woods to visit near Roweltown.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Roweltown if you like nature reserves.

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

The area around Roweltown features a number of interesting airports including Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

There are a several good islands in the area around Roweltown like Piel Island.

Roweltown History

There are some historic monuments around Roweltown:

• Hadrian's Wall between the Cam Beck and Newtown Farm in wall miles 56 and 57
• The vallum between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• The Loan medieval bastle and post-medieval cottage
• A night dummy aerodrome control building, part of a World War II bombing decoy, 610m north east of Walby Cottage
• The Currick long cairn 710m north east of Cald Well
• Four Romano-British farmsteads 370m south east of Old Church
• Scaleby Castle moated site
• Tower Tye ringwork
• Boothby Roman fort
• Hall Hills medieval dispersed settlement 370m WNW of St Cuthbert's Church
• The Roman bath house to the north east of Castlesteads Roman fort in wall mile 56
• Brampton Old Church Roman fort and the medieval Church of St Martin
• Lanercost Bridge
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Garthside and The Centurion Inn, Walton, in wall miles 54 and 55
• Round cairn in Mollen Wood, 640m east of Parkgate Bridge
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beacon
• Lanercost Augustinian priory, precinct wall and medieval standing cross base
• Medieval dispersed settlement at Askerton Park 170m WSW of Parkgate Bridge
• Two round cairns in Mollen Wood, 660m east of Parkgate Bridge
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the west
• 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 vallum between the field boundary south east of Heads Wood and the A6071 road in wall mile 57
• Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castle
• Bowl barrow 710m south east of Old Church
• Prehistoric cultivation terraces immediately south east of Nook
• 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
• Prehistoric enclosure, field system and cairnfield, and medieval and early post-medieval settlements and field systems 600m SSW of Blacklyne House
• Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 770m ESE of Old Church
• Hadrian's Wall between the road to Laversdale at Oldwall and Baron's Dike in wall miles 59 and 60
• Shiel Knowe round cairn
• Medieval dispersed settlement 210m WNW of Lukes Cottage
• Stonehouse Tower bastle
• Round cairn 300m south west of Underwood
• The vallum between the road to Garthside and the track east of Castlesteads in wall miles 54, 55 and 56
• Motte, immediately south east of Nook Farm
• Hadrian's Wall between Eden Vale house and the Cam Beck in wall mile 56
• Lynestead medieval pele tower, early post-medieval farmstead and an associated corn drying kiln