Retail in Ulpha
There are great places to visit near Ulpha 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.
Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are great places to visit near Ulpha if you like hills.
There are a number of hiking areas near Ulpha including 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 Ulpha.
The area around Ulpha 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.
Don't miss 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's ruins if visiting the area around Ulpha.
Old Mines to visit near Ulpha include Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.
There are a number of waterfalls near Ulpha including Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.
Ulpha's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.
Lakes to visit near Ulpha include Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.
The area around Ulpha features a number of interesting woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.
Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen are great places to visit near Ulpha if you like towns.
There are a number of mountains near Ulpha including Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.
Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther) are some of Ulpha best castles to visit near Ulpha.
Historic Buildings to visit near Ulpha include 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 Ulpha.
Caves to visit near Ulpha include Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.
The area around Ulpha boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.
Ulpha is near some unmissable nature reserves like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,
Places near Ulpha feature a number of interesting disused railway lines including Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.
There are a several good airports in the Ulpha area like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.
Piel Island is a great place to visit close to Ulpha if you like islands.
Ulpha History
There are some historic monuments around Ulpha:
- Settlement on The Hawk
- Cairnfield including a prehistoric enclosure, 5 stone circles, 10 funerary cairns, 6 stone banks, 2 stone walls, a lynchet and a trackway on Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfields, funerary cairns, ring cairns, hut circles, field systems and a medieval enclosed field system on Bootle Fell
- Three prehistoric cairnfields and an associated field system on Corney Fell, 1.2km south east of High Corney
- Hesk Fell prehistoric cairnfield and funerary cairn, a linear boundary, and a dispersed medieval settlement and field system 840m west of Horseman Gate
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield and a funerary cairn 400m south east of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield, ring cairn, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 670m east of Hodgewife Well
- Hare Gill prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 715m SSE of Fisher Gate
- Sike Moss prehistoric cairnfield and two ring cairns 215m north east of Woodend Bridge
- Great Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 710m south east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric enclosure containing ten clearance cairns south west of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 600m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Thwaites Fell immediately north of Hodgewife Well
- Prehisitoric cairnfield 850m north west of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and hut circle east of Water Crag
- Prehistoric hut circle settlements, enclosure, cairnfields, funerary cairns, a dispersed medieval settlement, field system and kilns on Heathwaite Fell
- Prehistoric cairnfield 840m east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 540m south west of The Knott
- Cairnfield including a funerary cairn, standing stone and three stone banks south of Eller How, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield, field system, two funerary cairns, a Romano-British farmstead, field system and a post-medieval haematite mine at Brantrake Moss
- Prehistoric hut circle settlement and cairnfield, three medieval settlements and associated field systems, and two shielings north of Crosbythwaite
- Green How West unenclosed prehistoric hut circle settlement 540m NNE of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and linear boundary on Hesk Fell 800m north of Holehouse Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 800m north west and 800m north of Woodend Bridge
- Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside
- Prehistoric enclosure north of Little Pie, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 630m east of the confluence of Hall Beck and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 840m north west of Redgill Head
- Prehistoric round cairn on Whitfell
- Prehistoric stone circle, trackway, cairnfields, funerary cairns, hut circles, Romano-British farmstead and a medieval field system, 1.1km SE of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Waberthwaite Fell, 740m south west of Rowantree Force
- Little Grassoms prehistoric field system, two cairnfields and six funerary cairns on Bootle Fell
- Smallstone Beck prehistoric cairnfield 410m east of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 330m south of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system north of Pike How, 650m west of High Ground
- Barnscar prehistoric cairnfield, two hut circle settlements, field systems, funerary cairns, and a Romano-British farmstead, trackway and field system
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement and associated field system 290m south east of Low Birker Tarn
- Prehistoric cairnfield, associated field system and a funerary cairn 520m south of Barnscar settlement
- Prehistoric cairnfield 660m north east of Barnscar settlement
- Stainton Ling prehistoric hut circle settlement, associated field systems, cairnfields, funerary cairns, and a medieval field system and two shielings
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system south west of Birkby Fell, 750m north east of The Knott
- Prehistoric cairnfields, field systems, hut circles and a farmstead on Corney Fell, 440m north west of Buckbarow Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m north east of Winds Gate
- Cairns on Kiln Bank 1/6 to 1/2 mile (270m-800m) SSE of Far Kiln Bank Farmhouse
- Prehistoric enclosure south of The Intake, 920m south east of Stainton
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 730m ENE of Birkerthwaite
- Duddon Bridge Ironworks and associated leats and Duddon Bridge Bobbin Mill and associated leats 370m north west of Duddon Bridge
- Conscientious Objectors’ Stone, 140m south east of Green Moor farmhouse
- Black Beck North prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 950m SSW of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Black Beck
- Roman road from Wrynose Bottom to Hardknott Ford
- Prehistoric long cairn on Stainton Fell, 940m north east of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle settlement, field system, funerary cairn, and a medieval shieling on Birkby Fell west of Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Birkby Fell, 360m south east of Raven Crag
- Prehistoric enclosure containing three hut circles and eight clearance cairns and an adjacent hut circle and cairnfield north east of Boat How, Burnmoor
- Hardknott Roman fort, bath-house, parade ground and tribunal, 4 Roman roads, Roman quarries and 3 cairns
- Crosby Gill prehistoric cairnfield and field system and a dispersed medieval settlement and associated lynchets 450m west of Crosbythwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield south west of Water Crag, 290m north west of the confluence of Linbeck Gill and Devoke Water
- Prehistoric cairnfield immediately south of Birkerthwaite
- Prehistoric cairnfield 420m south east of the triangulation pillar on Rough Crag
- Pike How prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 320m south west of High Ground
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system 350m west of The Knott
- Cairn and ring mound on Long Moor, W of Gill House Beck
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Stainton Fell, 760m NNE of Stainton
- Lath Rigg prehistoric cairnfield, hut circle and field system on Thwaites Fell 600m NNW of Thwaite Yeat
- Prehistoric cairnfield and two associated hut circles on Corney Fell, 860m north of Buckbarrow Bridge
- Prehistoric enclosure, hut circle and adjacent cairnfield east of Whillan Beck, Burnmoor
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 660m north of Rowantree Force
- Prehistoric cairnfield and associated field system on Waberthwaite Fell, on the north bank of Charlesground Gill, 880m south east of High Corney
- Great Grassoms prehistoric cairnfield, four funerary cairns, two medieval dispersed settlements and associated field systems on Bootle Fell
- Rough Crag prehistoric cairnfield, funerary cairn and a linear boundary 1000m ENE of Woodend Bridge
- Prehistoric cairnfield on Stainton Fell, 950m north of Rowantree Force
- Brown Rigg prehistoric cairnfield 375m east of Woodend Bridge
