Popping Stone

Popping Stone

The Popping Stone is, today, a group of three rounded boulders in the Irthing Gorge, near Gilsland. It was not always this shape, however, and photographs from before 1870 show a single, much larger stone that must have been drastically altered soon after this date. Nearly all written references to the Popping Stone mention various traditions associated with courtship and marriage proposals, and usually repeat the legend of (Sir) Walter Scott's proposal to Margaret Carpenter there in 1797. Close to the Popping Stone was an ancient, gnarled Hawthorn tree named the Kissing Bush, but this has now disappeared.

* [http://www.laverocks.co.uk/poppingstone/poppingstone.htm Website with historical detail and photographs]


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