Stone Circles in the Lake District, Cumbria, England.
Choose here from our extensive list of
Stone Circle sites available to visit in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Little known is the amount of Stone Circles that are
scattered throughout Cumbria.
With
Long Meg, the circle situated at Penrith and
is the second largest coming in second to Stonehenge.
In the North of the Lake District near Keswick is arguably
the most beautiful setting of any Stone Circle in Britain,
Castlerigg sits amidst Helvelyn offering astounding and
inspirational views of the surrounding mountain landscape.
Further circles can be found along the coastline, with Swinside Stone Circle near the town of Millom being of
significant importance, well preserved, very impressive
and with easy access.
Circle diameter of 60` standing on a flattened
mound, 20 uprights.
Castlerigg Stone Circle
Castlerigg, Keswick, Cumbria
Tel: 0191 2691200
Circa 3000BC, Castlerigg is surely the most
atmospheric of all British stone circles, with
Helvellyn as the dramatic backdrop, a truly
remarkable setting.
Elvastone Circle
Setmurthy
Fifteen stones,forming a ring 100` across, the
largest stone is 3.5 feet high.
Eskdale Moor/Burnmoor Circle
Ravenglass
Construction date is around 2000BC.
Gamelands Stone Circle
Orton, Penrith
Diameter of 138` with many of its stones fallen
with none higher than 3`.
Gretigate Stone Circles
Gosforth
South circle is 104` across, north-west is
72`, with 3 circles plus nine small cairns.
The third is north of the second and is 24`
across plus it encloses a small cairn.
Greycroft Stone Circle
Seascale
Circle of 10 standing stones with an 80`
diameter and restored in 1949.
Lacra Stone Circles
Millom
Remnants remaining of five stone circles and a
further two probable stone avenues, with the
circles ranging from 14` to 60`.
Leacet Stone Circle
Cliburn, Penrith
Tel: 01539 822222
Circle is 37` across with a total of seven
stones plus the retaining kerb of a cairn.
Long Meg and her Daughters
Little Salkeld, Penrith
Being the second largest circle in England, with
a 360` diameter. Long Meg is an outlying stone,
late Neolithic or early Bronze Age circa-2000
BC.
Moor Divock
Pooley Bridge, Penrith
A standing stone, stone circle and cairns.
Shap Standing Stones
Shap, Penrith
The principal feature is the Goggleby Stone a
mammoth 12 ton monolith, re-erected in 1975
after some 3500 years after being set on end.
Studfold Stone Circle
Dean, Cockermouth
Now incomplete & incorporating only one stone.
Eleven others survive with some of them being
only a few inches high.
Swinside Stone Circle
Duddon Bridge, Millom
Originally know as Sunkenkirk and consisting of
50 stones, situated at the foot of Black Combe.
