High & Low Bridestones Dovedale Natural Rock Feature View all content for High & Low Bridestones Dovedale

Bridestones. Picturesque pillars of rock on our moors, particularly near Blakey Topping, at which love and marriage ceremonies were practised in former times, as these rites of the ancient Britons are recorded to have taken place near their cromlechs or altar- stones. Formed by long aqueous and atmospheric action dispersing the softer parts and leaving the harder standing (such being the cause assigned for their appearance), one among the shapes has been likened to a gigantic mush- room, being 30 feet high, 20 feet broad at the top, on a stalk only three feet broad in one part and seven feet in another. A Glossary of Words used in the Neighbourhood of Whitby. By F. K. ROBINSON of Whitby. London MDCCCLXXVI. Taken from PUBLICATIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY COUNTY FOLK-LORE XLV/ 1899.

Posted by fitzcoraldo 29th November 2007ce

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