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