Swinside Stone Circle
The Swinside Stone Circle is on private property, but it can easily be seen from a nearby public footpath.
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Swinside Stone Circle Details
Although the Swinside Stone Circle is on private property, it can easily be seen from a nearby public footpath. The seldom-visited circle features 55 stones, up to 10 feet high set in a 90-foot diameter circle. Like Castlerigg, it dates from the Neolithic period and its entrance seems to line up with the midwinter sunset. Also called Sunkenkirk, that name comes from a legend that people tried to build a church here, but the devil kept pulling it down. The circle is 2.5 miles west of Broughton-in-Furness, and visitors should turn off the A595 at Broadgate. From the parking area it's a one-mile walk.
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