Browsing local attractions within 8 miles of The Hideaway

Demesne, Bewcastle, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA6 6PX, Tel: 01697 748627, www.bewcastle.com

Castle open to public at all times. Church open to public dawn to dusk. Bewcastle Cross Shaft Anglo Saxon 7thC, beside church. Dates from 1361, east wall 12thC.

Birkrigg, Urswick, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0PG

Double Circle of stones surrounding cremations in urns (removed). 'Platform' cairn, small barrows, Romano-British farmsteads.

Duddon Bridge, Nr Broughton in Furness, Millom, Cumbria

Originally know as Sunkenkirk, consists of 50 stones at the foot of Black Combe. Access is via a long farm track from a minor road branching off the A595. Well worth the walk!

Pooley Bridge, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 2NW

This area is rich in prehistoric remains including a standing stone, stone circle and cairns. Moor Divock is 300 metres above sea level, forming part of Askham Fell, to the East of Ullswater.

Coastguard Cottages, Walney, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 3YQ, Tel: 01229 471066, Email, www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk

A wild, exposed coastal reserve with thousands of breeding seabirds, wintering birds, grey seals and coastal Flora. Four miles of trail and 8 hides give amazing views of Morecambe Bay.

Penrith, Cumbria, CA10, Tel: 01539 816300, Email, www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/

Dean Moor, Nr Gilgarren, Workington, Cumbria

Stone circle is now incomplete and has a modern wall cutting through it, incorporating one stone. Eleven others survive, some only a few inches high.

Casterton, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth, Lancashire, LA6 2LF

Circle has a diameter of 60' and stands on a flattened mound or platform. There are 20 uprights, none more than 2' high and suggesting perhaps the kerb of a destroyed cairn.

Castlerigg, Keswick, Cumbria, CA10 2AA, Tel: 0191 2691200, Email, www.english-heritage.org.uk

Raised in circa 3000BC, Castlerigg is perhaps the most atmospheric of all British stone circles with the mountain of Helvellyn as a dramatic backdrop.

Boot, Eskdale, Cumbria

Several stone circles and many small cairns are visible on the moor. The circles are distinguished by the occurance within them of small cairns. Construction date is thought to be around 2000BC.

The Abbey, Carlisle, CA3 8TZ, Tel: 01228 548151, Email, www.carlislecathedral.org.uk

Cathedral dating from 1122, with fine carved wood and stonework. Stained glass from 14th to 20thC. Gift shop, restaurant and treasury exhibition.

Carlisle, Cumbria, LA8 8LX, Tel: 01539 816300, Email, www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/

Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA13 9BD, Tel: 01229 876564, Email, www.barrowbc.gov.uk/barrowpark

Set in 45 acres, Barrow's award-winning park provides the perfect place to stroll on sunny afternoons. Barrow Park..... always something going on, always something growing on!

Ainstable, Penrith, Cumbria

Three stone circles and two smaller settings of boulders 12' across. Inside one of the circles was a series of cremations, one in a collared urn.

Lacra, Nr Kirksanton, Millom, Cumbria

Remnants of five stone circles and two possible stone avenues, circles range from 14' to 60', one of them having contained a cremation.

Eva Plain, Nr Smetmurphy Common, Embleton, Cockermouth

The 15 stones, of which the tallest is just under one metre, form an almost perfect circle some 40 metres in diameter. Only 15 stones of the original 30 remain.

Shap, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 3QG

Today, the principal feature is the Goggleby Stone, a 12 ton monolith, which was re-erected in 1975 after it had fallen - some 3500 years after first being set on end.

Little Salkeld, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10, www.visitcumbria.com/pen/longmeg.htm

Second largest circle in England - 360' diameter. Long Meg is an outlying stone and is decorated with concentric circle - late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (c2000 or earlier).

Bland Ho, Orton, Penrith, Cumbria

One mile east of Orton is the ancient Gamelands stone circle. One of the largest in Cumbria, all of its stones have fallen over so none are higher than one yard but they are 100 yards in circumference.

Sides Farm, Gosforth, Nr Seascale, Cumbria

Three circles and nine small cairns. The south circle is 104' across, the north-west is 72' with a low central cairn. The third is immediately north of the second, it is 24' across and also encloses a small cairn.

Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1QL

The present circle of 10 standing stones, 80' diameter, was restored in 1949. The stone circle is on private land belonging to Seascale How Farm, but can be seen from a nearby footpath.

Cliburn, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 2DW

Circle is 37' across, seven stones and the retaining kerb of a destroyed cairn. Nineteenth-century excavations produced a cremation.

Compston Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9DJ, Tel: 01729 860353, Email, www.whiteplatts.co.uk

Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, LA8 8LX, Tel: 01539 816300, Email, www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk

Glebe Road, Bowness-on-Windermere, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HJ, Email, www.lakedistrict.gov.uk

Situated on the shores of Windermere, Englands longest lake. Opposite the main steamer pier. Good range of local gifts, fully accessible. Wheelchairs available to hire.

Moot Hall, Market Place, Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 1RW, Tel: 016977 3433, Email, www.discovercarlisle.co.uk

The Moot Hall has been a feature of Brampton's market place since at least 1648.