The enigmatic hill of Blakey Topping
       
     
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The recumbent stone
       
     
 Once part of a prehistoric site, now a gate post.
       
     
The enigmatic hill of Blakey Topping
       
     
The enigmatic hill of Blakey Topping

This is a bit of a strange one. Quite remote, a ruin, very little information about it and a name that sounds like a 1970s instant desert in a sachet. Is it a stone circle, is it an alignment or just a strange gathering of standing stones? It also seems like an opportunity missed, as if the builders had dragged the stones to the top of 'Blakey Topping', the enigmatic hill from which the stones take there name, it would have been stupendous! Anyway let's not dwell on the negatives, let's be thankful it's there at all despite one of the stones being a gate post and another recumbent.

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The recumbent stone
       
     
The recumbent stone

I believe there’s a fifth stone hidden somewhere inside the hawthorn hedge!

 Once part of a prehistoric site, now a gate post.
       
     

Once part of a prehistoric site, now a gate post.