Great Stone of Fourstones

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 28.2 "  N , 2 ° 30 ′ 27.2"  W.

The Great Stone of Fourstones with Ingleborough in the background

Steps carved into the stone

The Great Stone of Fourstones is a boulder near Bentham , North Yorkshire , England . The stone has a height of 4 meters and a circumference of 27 meters.

The stone was once used as a boundary stone between Lancashire and North Yorkshire and lies about 10 meters within North Yorkshire. The name of the stone (translated as "Large Stone of Four Stones") suggests that it is the largest of four stones in the past, although the others can no longer be found. For an unknown reason, a staircase was knocked into one side of the stone at an unknown time.

Legend has it that the stone fell out of the devil's purse when he brought the stones for the Devil's Bridge over the River Lune in Kirkby Lonsdale .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Great Stone of Fourstones on Geograph Britain and Ireland .
2. ^ Angus Winchester: Discovering Parish Boundaries (= Discovering Series. 282). 2nd edition. Shire Publications, Princes Risborough 2000, ISBN 0-7478-0470-2 , p. 53.
3. ↑ Jessica Lofthouse: North-country folklore in Lancashire, Cumbria and the Pennine Dales. Robert Hale, London 1976, ISBN 0-7091-5345-7 , p. 52.

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