Retail in Sleagill
There are great places to visit near Sleagill including some great hills, hiking areas, villages, towns, lakes, airports, islands, ancient sites, rivers and streams, ruins, woodlands, waterfalls, mountains, castles, historic buildings, historic monuments, caves, old mines, bluebell woods, nature reserves and disused railway lines.
Hills to visit near Sleagill include Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Lad Hows.
There are a several good hiking areas in the Sleagill area like Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, Wild Boar Fell, and Over Staveley.
Don't miss Eskdale, Coniston, Askham, Arnside, Burton-in-Kendal, Kirkby-in-Furness, and Troutbeck's villages if visiting the area around Sleagill.
The area around Sleagill features a number of interesting towns including Sedbergh, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, Kirkby Stephen, and Cockermouth.
There are a number of lakes near Sleagill including Windermere, Wastwater, Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Ullswater, and Haweswater.
Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Sleagill if you like airports.
There are a several good islands in the area around Sleagill like Piel Island.
There are a number of ancient sites near Sleagill including Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Mayburgh Henge, Gunnerkeld Stone Circle, and Castlehowe Stone Circle.
There are a number of rivers and streams near Sleagill including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, River Kent at Kentmere, and River Kent at Basingill.
Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Shap Abbey, Sedgwick Gunpowder Works, and Old Lime Kiln at Dalton are great places to visit near Sleagill if you like ruins.
Broughton Moor, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, Grubbins Wood, and Brigsteer Park are great places to visit near Sleagill if you like woodlands.
There are a number of waterfalls near Sleagill including Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Aira Force, Dungeon Ghyll , Pull Beck, Skelwith Force, and Ibbeth Peril.
There are a number of mountains near Sleagill including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
There are a number of castles near Sleagill including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Don't miss Acorn Bank, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Askham Hall, Acorn Bank Watermill, Lowther Mausoleum, and Smardale Gill Viaduct's historic buildings if visiting the area around Sleagill.
Fairy Steps is a great place to visit close to Sleagill if you like historic monuments.
Sleagill's best nearby caves can be found at Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Parrock Quarry, Hodge Close Quarry, Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Horse Crag Quarry, and Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level's old mines if visiting the area around Sleagill.
The area around Sleagill boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is a great place to visit close to Sleagill if you like nature reserves.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Sleagill's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Sleagill.
Sleagill History
There are some historic monuments around Sleagill:
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham Castle
- Lyvennet bowl barrow
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Crosby Gill
- Ewe Locks Romano-British settlement, Romano-British farmstead and two medieval shielings
- Howarcles Romano-British settlement
- Crake Trees tower house
- Keld Chapel
- Crosby Ravensworth churchyard cross
- Raise Howe cairn
- The Countess Pillar
- Roman camp, 350m east of Redlands Bank
- Bowl barrow 25m east of Ravens' Gill
- Bowl barrow 70m west of Lyvennet Beck
- Bowl barrow on Wickerslack Moor
- Round cairn on Howenook Pike
- Round cairn on White Raise
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
- Friar Biggins monastic grange
- Round cairn 460m NNE of Broadfell
- Ewe Close Romano-British enclosed and unenclosed stone hut circle settlements and associated field system, medieval farmstead and Wicker Street Roman road
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary west of Cow Green
- Three bowl barrows east of Ravens' Gill
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary north of Cow Green
- Romano-British farmstead and a length of Roman road 800m south of Winderwath
- Ring cairn north-west of Cattle Howe
- Oddendale concentric stone circle
- Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield
- Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
- King's Meaburn medieval settlement, part of its associated medieval open field system and Bessygarth Well
- Farmstead 700yds (640m) NNW of Redlands Bank
- Bowl barrow 20m east of Ravens' Gill
- Long barrow on Trainford Brow
- Round cairn 35m east of summit of Long Scar Pike
- Buck Park deerpound
- Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Hollins Scar
- Bowl barrow 40m north-north-east of High Haber
- Melkinthorpe medieval settlement, part of its associated open field system and the site of Melkinthorpe Hall
- Hollin Stump round cairn
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
- Maulds Meaburn medieval settlement, part of its associated medieval open field system and a mill race
- St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard
- Hardendale medieval dispersed settlement and site of medieval monastic grange
- Cow Green Romano-British settlement and medieval shieling
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham Castle
- Bowl barrow 70m south of Iron Hill
- Burwens Romano-British settlement and associated field system
- Gamelands embanked stone circle
- Roman milestone, 180m north west of Spitals
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
- Ravens Gill Romano-British farmstead
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary on Hazel Moor and two medieval shielings
- Roman marching camp 450yds (410m) NE of Brovacum
- Bowl barrow 230m north-west of Gilts
- Kirkby Thore Roman Fort and Associated Vicus
- Bewley Castle, Crackenthorpe
- Round cairn 30m east of Wicker Street Roman Road
- Round cairn west of White Raise
- Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
- Windrigg Hill round cairn, 440m south of High Murber
- Settlement 100yds (90m) SE of Sceugh Farm
- Round cairn 600m south-east of Gaythorne Cottages
- Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement and associated field system on Wickerslack Moor
- Small stone circle on White Hag
- Shap Stone Alignment
- Romano-British settlement and Romano-British farmstead north-east and east of Gilts
- Shap large regular stone circle
- Round cairn 690m south-east of Gaythorne Cottages
- Medieval shieling south of Cow Green
- Bowl barrow on Iron Hill
- Bowl barrow 60m south-west of Gaythorne Hall
- The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
- Cow Green long barrow
- Round cairn on Dale Moor
- Small stone circle 220m south-east of Castlehowe Scar
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary south of Cow Green
- Round cairn 300m west of Lyvennet Beck
- Round cairn 670m north-east of summit of Long Scar Pike
- Castle Folds Romano-British defended stone hut circle settlement and medieval shieling
- Round cairn 320m north-north-west of Seal Howe
- Round cairn 450m south-east of Castle Folds
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Cow Green and two medieval shielings