Swinside

Swinside

Swinside is a hamlet lying beside Swinside Fell, part of Black Combe, in southern Cumbria, England (map reference gbmappingsmall|SD171881). It is noted for the Swinside stone circle that lies nearby, a near-perfect circle just under 29 metres in diameter. The circle is also known as "Sunkenkirk", after a legend that the Devil made the stones sink into the ground to prevent them being used to build a church's foundation.

External links

* [http://www.megalithia.com/sites/sd172881.html Swinside stone circle] at Megalithia.com.
* [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/79 Images of and notes about Sunkenkirk] at "The Modern Antiquarian".


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