Castlerigg Roman Fort

Castlerigg Roman Fort is an archaeological site in St John’s, Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, England. Castlerigg Roman Fort is situated nearby to the locality Castlerigg stone circle, as well as near Goosewell Farm Activities Centre.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Castlerigg Manor and Low Rigg.

Castlerigg Manor

Community center

Photo: Jackregan, Public domain.

Keswick is a civil parish and a town in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It contains 51 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Castlerigg Manor is situated 1 mile west of Castlerigg Roman Fort.

Low Rigg

Peak

Photo: Antiquary, CC BY 4.0.

Low Rigg is a small hill in the English Lake District a few miles east of the town of Keswick and slightly north of its larger neighbour High Rigg. Geologically, Low Rigg is a lens-shaped laccolith consisting of an intrusion of a fine-grained granite.

Keswick Museum

Museum

Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Keswick Museum is a local museum based in Keswick in the English Lake District, which exhibits aspects of the landscape, history and culture of the area. Keswick Museum is situated 1¼ miles west of Castlerigg Roman Fort.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castlerigg stone circle and Chestnut Hill.

Castlerigg stone circle

Locality

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Castlerigg stone circle is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. In this period, the Lake District – a mountainous area in which Castlerigg is located – saw particularly high levels of Neolithic stone circle construction, with other similar examples including Swinside, Gamelands, Elva Plain, and Long Meg and Her Daughters.

Chestnut Hill

Suburb

Chestnut Hill is a suburb of Keswick, England, located along the A591 road. It contains the Nether Place Nursing Home and Claremont House, a 19th-century lodge which is an AA 4 diamond hotel.

Keswick

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Keswick is the northern tourist hub of the Lake District National Park and is a favourite base for serious walkers and climbers, artists and photographers, and anyone who enjoys mountain and lake scenery.

Castlerigg Roman Fort

Type: Archaeological site
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: St John’s, Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.59842° or 54° 35′ 54″ north

Longitude

-3.10305° or 3° 6′ 11″ west

Open location code

9C6RHVXW+9Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1567460173

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Goosewell Farm Activities Centre and Keswick Climbing Wall & Activity Centre.

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