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Tag Archives: Mytholmroyd
Rudstoop Monolith, Cragg Vale, West Yorkshire
Standing Stone/s: OS Grid Reference – SD 99269 23650 Getting Here From Mytholmroyd, go up the Cragg Vale Road, then 2 miles up take the road steep on your right down and round St. John’s Church, then keep going along … Continue reading
Robin Hood’s Penny Stone, Midgley Moor, West Yorkshire
Legendary Rock: OS Grid References – SE 018 284 Also Known as: Robin Hood’s Pennystone Robin Hood’s Rock Getting Here If you follow the directions to reach the Churn Milk Joan stone, then continue onto the moor following the same … Continue reading
Posted in Sacred Nature, Yorkshire, West
Tagged animism, antiquities, Archaeology, Calderdale, cup-markings, folklore, healing, Hebden Bridge, legends, medieval history, Middle Ages, Midgley, moorlands, Mytholmroyd, plague stones, plagues, Robin Hood, sacred sites, spirits, Wadsworth, West Yorkshire
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Turley Holes Stones, Cragg Vale, West Yorkshire
Standing Stones: OS Grid Reference – SD 9954 2199 Also Known as: Turley Holes Moor Standing Stones Getting Here Get right to the top of the valley, past the end of the tree-line where the moor opens up ahead of … Continue reading
Two Lads, Withens Moor, West Yorkshire
Cairns: OS Grid Reference – SD 98394 22114 Getting Here Best way here is, from Mytholmroyd go up the Cragg Vale road for a coupla miles, then turn right and heading down, then up, towards Withens Clough reservoir. Once there, … Continue reading
Churn Milk Joan, Midgley Moor, West Yorkshire
Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – SE 01912 28365 Also Known as: Saville’s Low Getting Here From the village of Midgley, high above the A646 Halifax-to-Todmorden road, travel west along the moorland road until you reach the sharp-ish bend in … Continue reading
Posted in Standing Stones, Yorkshire, West
Tagged animism, antiquities, Archaeology, boundary stones, Calderdale, carvings, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, earth mysteries, folklore, Hebden Bridge, legends, medieval history, Middle Ages, Midgley, monoliths, moorlands, Mytholmroyd, omphalos, petroglyphs, Rock art, sacred sites, spirits, Standing Stones, Wadsworth, West Yorkshire
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Greenwood ‘B’ Stone, Midgley Moor, West Yorkshire
Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – SE 01659 28449 Also Known as: Midgley Moor Standing Stone Getting Here Takes a bitta finding – especially if some dood’s knocked it down again (as happens up here). Best thing to do is … Continue reading
Posted in Standing Stones, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Calderdale, Chiserley, earth mysteries, folklore, Hebden Bridge, Luddenden, megalithic, Megaliths, Midgley, monoliths, Mytholmroyd, neolithic, Old Town, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Standing Stones, Wadsworth Moor, West Yorkshire
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Miller’s Grave, Midgley Moor, West Yorkshire
Cairn: OS Grid Reference – SE 01912 28366 Getting Here From the village of Midgley, high above the A646 Halifax-to-Todmorden road, travel west along the moorland road until you reach the sharp-ish bend in the road, with steep wooded waterfall … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burials, cairns, Calderdale, death, earth mysteries, folk-lore, folklore, Hebden Bridge, legends, Luddenden Dean, Midgley, Mytholmroyd, neolithic, prehistoric sites, Robin Hood, sacred sites, tombs, West Yorkshire
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Cock Hill, Wadsworth Moor, West Yorkshire
Tomb: OS Grid Reference – SE 009 275 Also Known as: Mount Skip tomb Getting Here OK – OK – stop laughing at the title! If you wanna check the hill out for yourselves, get to Hebden Bridge, then go … Continue reading
Sowerby Lad, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire
Standing Stone (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 024 244 Archaeology & History Also known as the Field House Standing Stone, this monolith seems to have gone. It was first described in local Minister’s Accounts of 1403, and then again … Continue reading
