Getting here
54.52905, -3.25164
Best for
2 activitiesHeritage
Free76%Historic site
Wildlife
Free75%Ancient woodland
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km🚶
Walking
10
7 named nearby · 3 public paths
Named routePublic access
Named routes and paths nearby
Coast to Coast Walk (St Bees to Shap) · Walking0
Seatoller, Styhead Tarn and Grains Gill Walk, North Lakes Outdoors · Walking11.2 km
The Valley of Cinders Walk, North Lakes Outdoors · Walking2.4 km
Buttermere to Rannerdale Walk, North Lakes Outdoors · Walking4.8 km
About this historic site
Scheduled Monument
Wildlife to spot
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🌱 Visiting this spring
- 🌸Ancient woodlands are famous for bluebell carpets in April and May — one of Britain's most spectacular wildflower displays
- 🐦Prime nesting season — listen for woodpecker drumming, warbler song and the first cuckoos from April
- 🦌Roe deer are active before the leaf canopy closes in — dawn and dusk are best
Facilities
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Parking
1 nearby · Free · 433m
Free entry🐶 Dogs
Good to know
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
- 🌿Ancient woodland — rare wildlife habitat
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Nearby places
Useful places within 5 km
✦Gillerthwaite and Dodsgill Beck medieval settlements, associated field systems and cairnfields 790m ENE and 370m north-east of Low GillerthwaiteHistoric site4.5 km→✦Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale BeckHistoric site4 km→✦Goldscope copper and lead mines and remains of associated dressing floors, stamp mill, dressing mill, reservoir and leatsHistoric site4.5 km→✦Dale Head copper mine dressing floors and associated buildings 400m north of Dale HeadHistoric site3.1 km→✦Dale Head copper mine 300m north east of Dale HeadHistoric site3.4 km→✦Prehistoric cairnfield and a Romano-British farmstead and its associated field system 1.24 km ESE of Low GillerthwaiteHistoric site4.4 km→