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placename:- Beacon, The
other name:- Beacon Stone Circle
site name:- Knapperthaw Farm
site name:- Beacon Hill
parish Lowick parish, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
stone circle
Altitude 443 feet
coordinates:- SD280842
10Km square:- SD28

1Km square SD2884

hearsay Some stones, circular inner area 26.1m x 27.2m.
Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex):: ISBN 0 85033 566 3
Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States)

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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