Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Swinside Stone Circle | |
| other name:- | Sunenkirk | |
| locality:- | Swinside | |
| parish |
Millom Without parish, once
in Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| stone circle | ||
| Altitude | 722 feet | |
| coordinates:- |
SD17168817 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD18
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| 51 stones in a circle diameter 28.7m. Local metamorphic slate called 'grey cobbles'. | ||
| 1Km square | SD1788 | |
 Swinside Stone Circle -- Swinside -- Millom Without -- Cumbria / -- 1.10.2007 | ||
 Swinside Stone Circle -- Swinside -- Millom Without -- Cumbria / -- 1.10.2007 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Cmd 86
14)
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| County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. | ||
| placename:- | Sunken Kirk | |
| antiquity | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| photographs | ||
| Swinside Stone Circle -- Swinside -- Millom Without -- Cumbria / -- 1.10.2007 | |
| hearsay |
Called Sunenkirk because the Devil made the stones, which
were to be used to build a church, sink into the ground each
night.
Burl calls this:- ... the loveliest of all the circles ... Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex):: ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Thom, A: 1967: Megalithic Sites in Britain: Oxford University Press (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Dymond, C W: 1902:: TWCAAS: vol.2: pp.53- 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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