Castlerigg Stone Circle
This is only a micro-walk but Castlerigg Stone Circle is a fascinating thing to visit and wander around and is the nearest thing the Lake District has to Stonehenge. It was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3300BC to 900BC, during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages.
It is situated barely a mile east of Keswick on a narrow country lane. There is space for a few cars beside the road and it's a simple matter of just crossing the road and entering the field. Information boards describe the stone circle and its history and the Wikipedia entry has lots of information too.
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Castlerigg Stone Circle
- Maps:
50K: 90
25K: OL4
- Start:
- NY291237 (get directions via Google Maps)
- Near to:
- Keswick
- Distance:
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- Ascent:
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- Min. time:
- 0 hrs 0 mins
- View in 3-D:
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- Terrain:
- 1 - easy
- Bog Factor:
- 1 - none
- Tech Diff:
- 1 - easy
- Dog issues:
- None
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Route Description
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Unless otherwise stated the text in this walk is the copyright of Hug Solutions Ltd trading as The Hug and the photographs are the copyright of Elizabeth Oldham. Hill data is derived from Database of British and Irish hills which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Maps contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011 and paths © OpenStreetMap Contributors,CC-BY-SA, 2011