Swinside
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For the hill of the same name beside Derwent Water in Cumbria, see Swinside (Derwent Water).
Swinside is a hamlet lying beside Swinside Fell, part of Black Combe, in southern Cumbria, England (map reference 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.
[edit] External links
- Swinside stone circle at Megalithia.com.
- Images of and notes about Sunkenkirk at The Modern Antiquarian.
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