Retail in Santon Bridge
There are great places to visit near Santon Bridge 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.
Santon Bridge has some unmissable hills nearby like Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
The area around Santon Bridge boasts some of the best hiking areas including Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.
There are a several good villages in the Santon Bridge area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.
There are a several good ancient sites in the Santon Bridge area 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 Santon Bridge 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 Santon Bridge features a number of interesting 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.
Santon Bridge has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Santon Bridge 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.
Santon Bridge's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Santon Bridge.
Santon Bridge's best nearby towns can be found at Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Mountains to visit near Santon Bridge include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Santon Bridge has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Santon Bridge's best nearby historic buildings can be found at 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 Santon Bridge 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 Santon Bridge if you like caves.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Santon Bridge if you like bluebell woods.
The area close to Santon Bridge boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Santon Bridge if you like disused railway lines.
Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are some of Santon Bridge best airports to visit near Santon Bridge.
Santon Bridge is near some unmissable islands like Piel Island,
Santon Bridge History
There are some historic monuments around Santon Bridge:
- Calder Abbey
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- High cross shaft, high cross head, and high cross base in St Michael and All Angels churchyard
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Gray Borran group of cairns
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Yokerill Hows, group of seven cairns
- Prehistoric cairnfield and enclosure 750m west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Corney Fell, 620m south east of Lambground
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Stockdale Moor prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, unenclosed cairn cemetery, ring cairns and funerary cairns
- High cross shaft in St John's churchyard
- High cross in St Mary's churchyard
- Lank Rigg round cairn
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Tongue How prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, cemetery and cairnfield, Romano-British farmstead, shieling and lynchets
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Corney Fell, 680m north east of Charlesground
- Town Bank prehistoric stone hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, ring cairn and cairnfield
- Drigg Holme packhorse bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Medieval shielings at Great Cove, 2.68km south of Low Gillerthwaite
- Monk's Bridge 320m south east of Farthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Roman kilns
- Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls Castle
- Monks Graves prehistoric cairn cemetery, cairnfields, field system, funerary cairns and a ring cairn on Stockdale Moor
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield 570m south west of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Mecklin Park cairnfield, 500m north of Ain House
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Infell Wood medieval enclosure, 550m north west of Scargreen
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Ravenglass Roman fort
- Ring cairn on Stockdale Moor 825m west of Pearson's Fold, north of Cawfell Beck
- High cross in St Paul's churchyard
