Yearngill is a Hamlet in the county of Cumbria.

Yearngill postcode: CA7 3JX

Retail in Yearngill

There are great places to visit near Yearngill 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 some of Yearngill best hills to visit near Yearngill.

The area around Yearngill 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 Yearngill area like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Yearngill 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 Yearngill 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.

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 Yearngill.

Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Yearngill.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are great places to visit near Yearngill if you like rivers and streams.

There are a number of lakes near Yearngill including Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood are some of Yearngill best woodlands to visit near Yearngill.

Don't miss Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen's towns if visiting the area around Yearngill.

Mountains to visit near Yearngill include Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Yearngill features a number of interesting castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Yearngill has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like 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 Yearngill's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Yearngill.

Yearngill has some unmissable caves nearby like Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel.

There are a number of bluebell woods near Yearngill including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Yearngill.

The area around Yearngill's best disused railway lines can be found at Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Yearngill if you like airports.

There are a number of islands near to Yearngill including Piel Island.

Yearngill History

There are some historic monuments around Yearngill:

• Silloth Golf Course tower 12b, 410m north west of Heatherbank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Blennerhasset Roman fort, 300m south west of Harbybrow
• Prehistoric enclosure and trackway south of Wolsty Hall
• Moated site of Wolsty Castle
• Dubmill Point milefortlet 17, 560m WNW of Hill House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 1/2 mile (800m) S of Wolsty
• Wolsty North tower 13a, 500m south west of Wolsty Farm, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• The Battery
• Settlement 450m east of Eweclose
• Westnewton Castle
• Beckfoot Roman fort
• Settlement SW of Mealo Hill House
• Prehistoric enclosure and hut circle, a Romano-British enclosure, and a Romano-British farmstead and associated field system north of Wolsty Hall
• Silloth Golf Course tower 12a, 670m WNW of Blitterlees Farm, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• St Mary's Abbey, Holmcultram
• Enclosure 125m SE of Old Mawbray
• Palisade ditches, part of Roman frontier defences along Cumbrian coast, Roman camp & road and part of Romano-British field system,250m north of Silloth Farm
• St Mungo's Castle
• Mawbray Sandpit tower 16b, 680m WSW of Hailforth, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Blitterlees (milefortlet 12), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Enclosure 105m SE of Old Mawbray
• Wolsty South tower 13b, 200m WNW of New House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Bank Mill tower 15a, 250m north west of Belmont House, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Birkby Colliery conical spoil tip 600m west of Rose Gill Mill
• Wardhall Guards Medieval Settlement
• Enclosure 130m SSE of Old Mawbray
• Low Mire (milefortlet 20) 50m north of Heather Bank, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast
• Settlement one mile (1610m) NE of Crosscanonby
• Moated site 1/4 mile (400m) NE of Cockbridge
• Romano-British farmstead 250m ENE of Belmont House
• Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle Fields
• Oval enclosure 120m N of Brownrigg Hall
• Harbybrow pele tower