Cumbria and the Lake District

the Stone Circles guide

Cumbria is home to a quarter of the stone circles in England.

• Stone Circles
  • What are they?
  • The Circles
    • Birkrigg
    • Blakeley Raise
    • Burnmoor
    • Castlehowe Scar
    • Castlerigg
    • Gamelands
    • Grey Croft
    • Gunnerkeld
    • Iron Hill
    • Long Meg
    • Moor Divock
    • Oddendale
    • Swinside
  • The Henges
• The Romans
  • Hadrian's Wall
  • A list of Forts
• Border Wars
• The Castles
  • Appleby Castle
  • Brough Castle
  • Brougham Castle
  • Carlisle Castle
  • Dacre Castle
  • Dalton Castle
  • Egremont Castle
  • Hutton in the Forest
  • Kendal Castle
  • Muncaster Castle
  • Pendragon Castle
  • Penrith Castle
  • Piel Castle
  • Sizergh Castle
  • Workington Hall
• Church history
  • Carlisle Cathedral
    • Images gallery
  • Cartmel Priory
  • Furness Abbey
  • Lanercost Priory
  • Shap Abbey
  • The Dissolution

Grey Croft Stone Circle Cumbria

Welcome to the EDGE Guide to the stone circles of Cumbria.

 

Grey Croft Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Whitehaven.
Location: NY 033024, Sheet 89.

Just north of the village of Seascale, the Circle is in land owned by Seascale How Farm (be sure to ask permission to visit the site from the farm) and is approached from the public footpath running along the bottom of the Golf Course.

The circle is small (86ft/27m) but has impressive stones varying in height between 3ft/l m and 6ft/2m. The circle was destroyed in 1820 to enable easier ploughing by digging holes in the earth by the stones and tipping them in!

Thankfully a local School reconstructed the circle in 1949.

Excavations revealed cremated human remains and Bronze Age artefacts.

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