'Places of interest just outside Cumbria'

This website - 'VisitCumbria.com' - aims to bring to your attention the many places of interest within the County of Cumbria, which includes the Lake District National Park, and part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

If you are visiting places near the border of Cumbria, then you will be interested in the places to visit just outside this County boundary. Some of these places are listed here.

Take the scenic route along the A686 from Penrith via Hexham, with its famous Abbey, to the great Roman site of Corbridge, over the Tyne. left - Hexham Abbey. right - The oldest dwelling in Corbridge - Low Hall and its pele tower

Ribblehead Viaduct - one of the most impressive structures on the famous Carlisle to Settle Railway, situated just outside the Cumbrian border in North Yorkshire.

High Force Waterfall - reputed to be the highest unbroken fall of water in England, (21 metres), is on the route from Alston to Brough, at Middleton-in-Teasdale, County Durham.

The Tan Hill public house - Great Britain's highest inn, at 1732 ft above sea level. Situated right on the border of North Yorkshire and Durham, and near the border of Cumbria. The Inn is popular with walkers, as it lies approximately halfway along the Pennine Way from Edale, Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm, Scotland. The Coast to coast walk from St. Bees, Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire passes it's halfway mark at Keld, four miles from Tan Hill. See www.tanhillinn.co.uk. Grid Ref 98: NY 896067

Just over the border into Northumberland, is Whitley Castle old roman fort, near Kirkhaugh station at the end of the South Tynedale Railway. - [NY 695 487]. A little further north, along the road from Alston to Brampton that follows the route of the old Alston Haltwhistle Railway, is the impressive Lambley Viaduct.

Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, roughly following the border between England and Scotland.

Just over the border into Durham from the Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre near Alston, is Killhope, the North of England Lead Mining Museum.

Leighton Hall is just over the border from South Cumbria into Lancashire.

The northern border of Cumbria is also the border between England and Scotland, and just over the border north of Carlisle is the village of Gretna Green, with its famous Old Blacksmith's Shop.

The south east corner of Cumbria, including Sedbergh, Dent and Garsdale, is in or on the edge of The Yorkshire Dales National Park.

St Leonards' Church, Chapel-le-dale has many people buried there who perished during the building of the Settle to Carlisle railway, and also those who built the viaduct at Ribblehead.

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