Places to explore near Penrith North Lakes StationPenrith

A stone beacon tower on the wooded hill above Penrith, once lit to warn of border raids, with wide Eden-valley views.

1.8 km NE

A grass-roofed arts and events centre near Penrith built into a hillside, with galleries, a cinema and local food.

2.1 km SW

A red sandstone castle beside the grassy banks of Brocavum, a Roman fort at a crossing of the Eamont.

3 km E

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

3.5 km SW

Estate-to-plate dining at a fortified manor and kitchen garden near the Lake District.

6.2 km S

Cumbria's great river, running north from the Mallerstang fells through red sandstone country and Carlisle to the Solway.

6.2 km NE · Cumbria

Ullswater inn with lake views and rooms, an olive gastropub pick.

9.2 km SW

Long Meg and Her Daughters stone circle, associated cursus and prehistoric enclosure

9.5 km NE

Five chambers cut into the red sandstone cliffs above the Eden near Little Salkeld, a Georgian gentleman's folly.

9.9 km NE

Red sandstone ruin opposite Penrith station, begun by Ralph Neville in the late 1300s and later a stronghold of the future Richard III.

0.2 km E

Penrith food hall built on the family butchery, stocking meat, deli and produce from more than 50 Cumbrian makers.

0.5 km S

Low-beamed 17th-century dining pub near Penrith, often named among Cumbria's best for its food, ales and single malts.

2.1 km S

Fifteenth-century tower house, all that is left of the Wybergh manor, looted by Bonnie Prince Charlie's retreating army before the 1745 clash at Clifton Moor.

3.7 km SE

A country park in Cumbria.

3.9 km SW