Retail in Sleagill
There are great places to visit near Sleagill 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 Sleagill features a number of interesting hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.
Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Sleagill best hiking areas to visit near Sleagill.
Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer are great places to visit near Sleagill if you like villages.
Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle are great places to visit near Sleagill if you like ancient sites.
There are a number of ruins near Sleagill 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 Sleagill boasts some of the best 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.
Sleagill's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
The area around Sleagill features a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
Sleagill has some unmissable lakes nearby like Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
The area around Sleagill features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
There are a several good towns in the Sleagill area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.
Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Sleagill if you like mountains.
Sleagill has some unmissable castles nearby like Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).
Sleagill'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.
There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Sleagill like Fairy Steps.
Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Sleagill best caves to visit near Sleagill.
Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood are great places to visit near Sleagill if you like bluebell woods.
The area close to Sleagill boasts some of the best nature reserves including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Sleagill's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Sleagill.
Airports to visit near Sleagill include Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Sleagill if you like islands.
Sleagill History
There are some historic monuments around Sleagill:
- Round cairn 30m east of Wicker Street Roman Road
- Round cairn 35m east of summit of Long Scar Pike
- Roman marching camp 450yds (410m) NE of Brovacum
- Round cairn 690m south-east of Gaythorne Cottages
- Medieval dyke system and shieling west of Shap Abbey
- Gamelands embanked stone circle
- Friar Biggins monastic grange
- Settlement 100yds (90m) SE of Sceugh Farm
- Round cairn on White Raise
- Farmstead 700yds (640m) NNW of Redlands Bank
- Shap Premonstratensian Abbey, including the precinct wall, abbey mill and mill race, and two fishponds
- Castle Folds Romano-British defended stone hut circle settlement and medieval shieling
- Gunnerkeld concentric stone circle
- Maulds Meaburn medieval settlement, part of its associated medieval open field system and a mill race
- Hardendale medieval dispersed settlement and site of medieval monastic grange
- Keld Chapel
- Bowl barrow 20m east of Ravens' Gill
- Round cairn 600m south-east of Gaythorne Cottages
- Skellaw Hill bowl barrow
- Cow Green Romano-British settlement and medieval shieling
- Windrigg Hill round cairn, 440m south of High Murber
- Ewe Close Romano-British enclosed and unenclosed stone hut circle settlements and associated field system, medieval farmstead and Wicker Street Roman road
- Romano-British settlement and Romano-British farmstead north-east and east of Gilts
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham Castle
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary south of Cow Green
- Ring cairn north-west of Cattle Howe
- Bewley Castle, Crackenthorpe
- Round cairn on Dale Moor
- Shap large regular stone circle
- Round barrow 150m east of Scarside Plantation
- Bowl barrow 70m west of Lyvennet Beck
- Round cairn 320m north-north-west of Seal Howe
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary west of Cow Green
- Round cairn on Howenook Pike
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary north of Cow Green
- Bowl barrow on Wickerslack Moor
- The Old Kiln, Wetheriggs Pottery
- The Countess Pillar
- Romano-British farmstead and a length of Roman road 800m south of Winderwath
- Hollin Stump round cairn
- Medieval shieling south of Cow Green
- Small stone circle on White Hag
- Crosby Ravensworth churchyard cross
- Lyvennet bowl barrow
- Burwens Romano-British settlement and associated field system
- Howarcles Romano-British settlement
- Roman camp, 350m east of Redlands Bank
- Cow Green long barrow
- Bowl barrow 70m south of Iron Hill
- Crake Trees tower house
- Oddendale concentric stone circle
- Three bowl barrows east of Ravens' Gill
- Round cairn 670m north-east of summit of Long Scar Pike
- Bowl barrow 60m south-west of Gaythorne Hall
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Crosby Gill
- Melkinthorpe medieval settlement, part of its associated open field system and the site of Melkinthorpe Hall
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham Castle
- King's Meaburn medieval settlement, part of its associated medieval open field system and Bessygarth Well
- Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement and associated field system on Wickerslack Moor
- Bowl barrow on Iron Hill
- Round cairn 300m west of Lyvennet Beck
- Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield
- Round cairn 450m south-east of Castle Folds
- Raise Howe cairn
- Shap Stone Alignment
- Bowl barrow 25m east of Ravens' Gill
- Roman milestone, 180m north west of Spitals
- Round cairn 460m NNE of Broadfell
- Buck Park deerpound
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary on Hazel Moor and two medieval shielings
- Long barrow on Trainford Brow
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Cow Green and two medieval shielings
- Round cairn west of White Raise
- Ravens Gill Romano-British farmstead
- Stone circle 800m east of Wetheriggs Pottery
- St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard
- Ewe Locks Romano-British settlement, Romano-British farmstead and two medieval shielings
- Kirkby Thore Roman Fort and Associated Vicus
- Bowl barrow 40m north-north-east of High Haber
- Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation
- Bowl barrow 230m north-west of Gilts
- Medieval dyke: part of deer park boundary at Hollins Scar
- Small stone circle 220m south-east of Castlehowe Scar