The King Stone.
Image credit: A. Brookes (6.8.2022)
Images
In sultry summer.
Image credit: A. Brookes (6.8.2022)
Image credit: A. Brookes (17.9.2020)
Image credit: A. Brookes (17.9.2020)
A beautiful evening, a few days before the Autumn equinoxe.
Image credit: A. Brookes (17.9.2020)
Image credit: A. Brookes (29.12.2018)
Approaching the circle.
Image credit: A. Brookes (29.9.2018)
12 April 2012 CE
12 April 2012 CE
Image credit: A. Brookes (30.12.2017)
Image credit: A. Brookes (30.12.2017)
Image credit: A. Brookes (30.12.2017)
Image credit: A. Brookes (30.12.2017)
Survey of Nine Ladies with inset showing possible perimetric units and geometry (a circle within a square within a circle). The diameter of the originating (outer) circle is 15 megalithic yards. Thus, the length of the axis, which bears true NE to SW, is 12.8 MY = 10.6m. The King Stone bears approx. 243 deg. from the two centres shown.
Image credit: G.J. Bath
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Image credit: ruskus
Yet more mindless damage at nine ladies
Image credit: Emma Gordon
Yet more mindless damage at nine ladies
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02/15
02/15. Recent tree clearance near the circle.
Charcoal (and underneath paint) damage 15/3/14
Paint damage 15/3/14
Paint damage 15/3/14
Paint damage 15/3/14
Paint damage 15/3/14
Paint damage 15/3/14
The smallest stone of the circle seems to have had a chip taken out of it. I didn’t check the other stones, but got a quick picture of this as I was passing.
Image credit: Emma Alsop
King Stone in the background.
Image credit: Emma Alsop
Image credit: Emma Alsop
Image credit: Emma Alsop
Image credit: Emma Alsop
Image credit: Emma Alsop
Photo taken 11th November 2012. The Nine Ladies in all their glory!
Image credit: Paul Kesterton
Taken on 11th November. The low winter sun really picks out the small mound on which the Nine Ladies are built.
Image credit: Paul Kesterton
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Sept 2012
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Recent offerings to the god of crisps at Nine Ladies!
Image credit: Emma Alsop
From the shade of the nearby oak.
Image credit: A. Brookes (17.9.2011)
For a short time we had the circle to ourselves, under a wholly unexpected blue sky.
Image credit: A. Brookes (17.9.2011)
09/11. “They’ve got a flyin teapot...don’t need a taxi”.....Close to the equally new spiral carving.
nine ladies at dawn
Image credit: Layla Bert Smith
Stone farthest from King Stone with mesolithic stone pick axe (broken) perched atop.
Enjoy.
Bling_von_T
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The Nine Ladies showing their age a bit....... apparently they’ve been ‘39’ for a couple of millennia now, bless ‘em.
Image credit: Robert Gladstone
The circle, still with sheep guardian, from the King’s Stone outlier.
Image credit: A. Brookes (7.6.2010)
Here’s looking at ewe – the immovable guardian of the circle.
Image credit: A. Brookes (7.6.2010)
Someone had lit a fire at some point, despite all the notices :-(
Image credit: Taken by Paganpippalee
Just to continue the ongoing sheep theme....
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More damned sheep!
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Information board at the Nine ladies.
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A foggy November day, 2003.
Image credit: A. Brookes (11.2003)
November 2000 survey and excavation
Image credit: A. Brookes (11.2000)
November 2000 survey and excavation
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November 2000 survey and excavation
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The King Stone outlier during the November 2000 excavation and survey
Image credit: A.Brookes (11.2000)
Image credit: Chris Bickerton
Image credit: Chris Bickerton
Image credit: Chris Bickerton
Nine ladies spring 07
c18th Century.
Image credit: Major Hayman Rooke
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c19th Century.
Image credit: Llwellyn Jewitt
Image credit: Uncle Shooey
Image credit: Uncle Shooey
The Fiddler stone, also known by some as the Kings stone.
Image credit: By Aimee Blease-Bourne
Winter Solstice sunrise 2004
Image credit: By Aimee Blease-Bourne
11/04.
Image credit: Jane Tomlinson
Part of the moor and the woods. The Nine Ladies is at the bottom of the clearing in the centre of the pic.
Image credit: Tim Clark
Gratuitous infra red shot. No anomalies when compared to local non-megalithic stone (i.e. gateposts). But them I wouldn’t call a flying midnight visit a controlled study, so don’t take my word for it.
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Drawn mostly on site before recent restoration but after some tree clearance. sandraorme.co.uk
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King Stone and Nine Ladies.
Modern graffiti on one of the eastern stones.
Looking towards the circle, our fire and bbq. 05/09/03
Carved spiral found on one of the stones off to the lower edge of the trees sorrounding the stones. Had a fire and a bbq here. 05/09/03
05/09/03
One of the first ‘stones’ photos I ever took – a good while ago now....
Image credit: Tim Clark
A double page spread from my sketchbook.
9 ladies as seen from the sacred bobble tree.
03/03
03/03 ....? why you......TITCHMARSH..!!
The King Stone
Image credit: David Nulty
DreamCatcher in Stanton Moor Woods
Image credit: David Nulty
The Spring
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Stanton Moor Woods
Image credit: David Nulty
Image credit: Craig Gurney 31 December 2002
Image credit: Craig Gurney 28 December 2002
Image credit: Craig Gurney 28 December 2002
Nine Ladies in the mist at the end of December 2002.
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11/02 This is on a tree above a nasty fire pit 20ft from the circle. There are quite a few more fire places...I know what they’re saying.....but surely it should be ’ No Fires ’ ...it does say something on there about respect.
feb ‘02
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View from King Stone – 10th December 2001
Image credit: Keith Ratcliffe
Nine Ladies, Stanton Moor. October 2001
Articles
Ode to a Flesh Cocoon by Mads Washbrook
I visited Nine Ladies of Stanton Moor shortly after the artist had been filming there. I was intrigued to see the results...
Some scrote had carved more graffiti into a stone at nine ladies :(
heritageaction.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/yet-more-damage-to-nine-ladies-of-stanton-moor/
English Heritage satisfied pink drapes on Nine Ladies Stone Circle was not vandalism
Derby Telegraph
By Kelly Tyler
The Nine Ladies stone circle at Stanton Moor, near Bakewell, was mysteriously draped in pink fabric.
The striking dressing of the Nine Ladies monument, believed to have been built more than 4,000 years ago, was spotted by a walker on Monday.
A cryptic note left at the circle signed by the “Spirit Wrestlers” said the gritstone blocks were decorated as an “act of love and gratitude for their eternal being”.
English Heritage, which owns the site at Stanton Moor, near Bakewell, said it is not known exactly why the material was placed over the stones.
A woman who came across the unusual sight said: “As I approached I thought the stones had been – as had happened a few months ago – vandalised with pink paint.
“However, as I neared the stone circle, it was apparent the Nine Ladies had been seemingly dressed in a bright pink fabric.
“A note had been left in the middle of the stones referring to the earlier attack and also the troubles in the world today. Interesting, I thought, if not a little strange.
“This is the Nine Ladies though, I suppose, so anything is possible.”
The ancient monument dates back to the Bronze Age and is popular with walkers and pagan worshippers.
The stones were traditionally believed to be nine ladies turned to stone as punishment for dancing on Sunday.
The site was vandalised in March this year by offenders who sprayed yellow and green paint on the rocks.
A note left at the spot said the stones were wrapped as a “direct response to an act of vandalism on the Nine Ladies some months ago and the knowledge that the Universe must be realigned.”
It went on to say: “The consequences of our actions will only become apparent over time.
“Do something to make the world a better place, whether this act is large or small matters not.
“Doing it is what drives us forward. Whatever next?”
An English Heritage spokesperson said: “Having been contacted about the sighting of pink material on the stones earlier yesterday, we visited the site to investigate this afternoon and it would appear it has since been removed without trace.
“We are not treating this as an act of vandalism”
derbytelegraph.co.uk/English-Heritage-satisfied-pink-drapes-Ladies/story-22870940-detail/story.html
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-26629162
A stone circle believed to have been built 4,000 years ago has been vandalised.
Residents living near the Nine Ladies stone circle near Stanton Moor in the Peak District found the stones had been painted over the weekend.
The ancient monument dates back to the Bronze Age and is popular with walkers and pagan worshippers.
English Heritage said it was working with the local authority and police to investigate the damage.
Walkers spotted the stones had been painted yellow and green.
Nine Ladies vandalism
Each of the stones were drawn on with green and yellow paint
Anna Tattler, who lives nearby, said: “It is atrocious. It is a really special place and used for people to come and spend quiet, contemplative time here.
“It is a real shame the vandals have not recognised their importance and to deface them like that is pretty awful.”
In 2000, environmental protesters had camped at the site in a long-running campaign against plans to reopen two dormant quarries near the monument.
Permission for the planning application was eventually revoked in 2008.
An English Heritage spokesman said the site may need specialist conservation work to remove the paint in order to avoid further damage.
He added: “Please don’t try to remove the paint yourself as it could cause further damage.”
WOULD-BE archaeologists and star-gazers are invited to meet the experts to explore ancient history and the night sky from a prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, December 4.
The Peak District National Park Authority is offering 60 free places for people to find out more about the mystical Nine Ladies stone circle, on Stanton Moor, both on the ground and in the night sky.
Three two-hour sessions will take place on Sunday December 4, at noon, 2pm, and 4pm, starting at the Village Hall in Stanton in Peak, near Bakewell.
The events will include a short talk on the history of the stone circle, what to look out for in the night sky in December, a planetarium session, and a 15-minute walk to the stone circle.
The 4pm session will include a look at the night sky through telescopes, weather permitting.
Booking is essential as each session is limited to only 20 people.
A waiting list will be used to prioritise bookings for future events.
Dogs are not allowed.
To book or for more information email [email protected] or telephone 0115 848 3518. Participants must bring along their own torch for the 4pm session.
thestar.co.uk/news/explore_mystery_of_stone_circle_1_3986781
“Years of campaigning are finally over for protestors at Stanton Moor as a deal to save the site from quarrying has been approved.”
Matlock Mercury article.
“Stancliffe Stone are planning to extend a pre-existing quarry at Dale View, close to the Stone Circle and the Lees Cross and Endcliffe quarries which have recently been ruled dormant.
Stanton Against the Destruction of our Environment (SADE) are asking for people to join a human chain on Saturday, July 30, between Stanton-in-Peak and Stanton Lees from 11am.”
matlocktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=749&ArticleID=1097027
Environmentalists have won a campaign to stop quarrying at a beauty spot in the Peak District.
The Court of Appeal ruled on Friday there should be no more work at Lees Cross and Endcliffe quarries, near Matlock in Derbyshire.
Eco-Warriors who have camped for five years at a Peak quarry say they are planning to leave now victory is in sight.
The protesters have been campaigning to save the quarries from further workings, because of their proximity to the historic Nine Ladies Stone Circle.
A deal between Stancliffe Stone and the Peak District National Park Authority to indefinitely adjourn a bid to reopen Endcliffe and Lees Cross quarries means the firm will investigate other options for supply.
Now protesters say that as soon as the future of the site is guaranteed they will pack their bags and leave.
Veteran campaigner Malcolm Dixon, 36, said: “Obviously it is good news. We are looking for assurances that Stancliffe Stone won’t quarry here. If we get a positive outcome we will be packing up.”
Robin Nash, 24, who has occupied the site for two years, said: “Initially it sounds like a very positive thing. If we get confirmation it is really great news.”
Last year Matlock company Stancliffe Stone had been told if it wanted to reopen the quarries it would have to meet certain conditions. The company was set to challenge the decision at the Court of Appeal in March.
Now the deal with the national park will delay the court action if work can be found for the firm’s 68-strong workforce.
Chair of the Peak Park Authority Tony Hams said if the court was happy with the deal, it would give both parties breathing space.
He added: “It means we have more time to consider any other options that come up but in no way does it preclude going back to the court or any other options we might be considering for those quarries.”
Stancliffe Stone general manager Mike Jones said: “If the Court of Appeal grants the proposed adjournment we will work closely with the Peak Park and the local community to explore a viable alternative to quarrying at Endcliffe and Lees Cross.”
The campaigners have built tree houses on the 32-acre site and dug a complex of deep tunnels and defences in stone cavities.
If the future of the quarries is guaranteed, they face the prospect of leaving the place they have called home for the past five years.
“We will spend some time taking the site down,” said Mr Nash. “We will leave it as a natural place of beauty as it originally was.
“It is a bit of a shell-shock. But if the news is for real then it is brilliant.”
By Tim Cunningham
matlockmercury.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=749&ArticleID=929874
Peak Park bosses and quarry chiefs are locked in a legal battle over the rights to extract stone from a controversial quarry where eco-warriors have been camped for four years. Planners at the National Park Authority listed Endcliffe and Lees Cross Quarries at Stanton Moor (England) as dormant because there had been no significant working in them for many years. But quarry owners are making a legal challenge in the High Court against the listing.
Park bosses say they are determined to defend the challenge, even though it could leave them with a huge legal bill, in order to uphold their primary purpose of protecting the Peak District’s special qualities. Councillor John Bull, the authority’s planning committee chairman, said the course of action is essential to reduce the risk of environmental harm to an area that is of nationally-important archaeological and historical interest. “It is absolutely crucial to establish the legal status of the quarries, as this affects our ability to impose modern working conditions on the operations based on the existing planning permission which dates back to 1952,” he added. “If we do not defend the challenge, the quarries will be deemed to be ‘active’ making it more difficult to impose any conditions to limit the effects of quarrying. “Future working could then lead to significant environmental damage and disturbance to communities living nearby.
The High Court hearing is currently taking place in London. Protesters set up camp in the quarry four years ago amid fears that new workings could create a landslip and destroy nearby Bronze Age burial grounds, including the Nine Ladies stone circle.
Source: Archaeo News (22 May 2004)
Saturday February 28, 2004 – The Guardian
A planned new quarry threatens to destroy the tranquillity of the Peak District’s finest megalithic monument. Chris Moss finds ramblers, locals and pagans united in opposition
Driving along the A6, it’s not immediately obvious that the Peak District might well be England’s most important national park. In fact, it’s easy to forget you’re in a park at all – there are plenty of pretty towns and old farms lining the river valleys, and old mills and stone-walled inns worthy of an urbanite’s cosiest drinking dream – but the dramatic, bleakly beautiful heights of the southern Pennines are most often obscured by steep dales or low mists.
The Peak (as locals call it) is about leisure as much as landscape. The 555 square-mile national park is a lung for the people of Manchester, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield and Stoke. The first national park, it was created in 1951 precisely to put a green belt between these sprawling conurbations. It’s visited by some 22m people each year (only Japan’s Mount Fuji’s national park tops it). And, if it lacks Cumbria’s photogenic lakes, the Peak’s landscape of gritstone outcrops, limestone crags, heather and peat moorland – Daniel Defoe called it “a waste and howling wilderness” – has a rugged, romantic appeal.
Among the Peak’s many secrets are vestiges of the bronze age: cairns, burial mounds, stone circles and hillforts. Outstanding among these is the Nine Ladies stone circle at Stanton Lees, between Bakewell and Matlock. Between 3,000 and 4,000 years old, these nine stumpy stones, probably built for rituals honouring the sun and moon, stand in a small circle like old teeth, surrounded by silver birch, ash and beech trees and, beyond these, a beautiful stretch of moorland dotted with further Neolithic remnants and ruins.
No wonder then that any attempt to make any inroads into this landscape that are not destined for boot-clad backpackers is resisted so fiercely by locals and tourists alike. Just beneath the Nine Ladies site is where Stancliffe Stone wants to quarry 3.2m tons of millstone grit for the building trade. While the development rights to this dormant quarry – on land owned by Lord Edward Manners, who lives in Haddon Hall, just a few minutes’ drive from the site – are legally binding, villagers, townsmen and scores of eco-minded travellers have come together to protect the ancient heritage and the tourism that is the region’s lifeblood.
Walking up to the site from the village of Rowsley (also owned by Lord Manners), I spoke to two of the protesters, Becky Walsh and David Connolly, who were out on a ramble between sessions of constructing ramparts to prevent the quarrying firm’s diggers from approaching the rock face. “It’s just big money trying, as always, to get what it can out of the land,” claims Becky. “But we’ve been here for about four years now and we know how precious it is to locals.
“It’s so peaceful – and if this goes ahead, there will be a massive hole just 100m away. As well as the stones, there are burial mounds here and lots of ruins that have never been investigated. These draw pagans who come to perform handfasting (pagan marriages) or to practise wicca mediation, and whirling dervishes use the site, too.”
Like many other circles, there is a rich pagan-cum-druidic folklore that extends way beyond the tentative specualtions of history books. One story is that the Nine Ladies were formed by people being turned to stone for dancing on the Sabbath – the “King Stone”, on a bank just a few yards away, was said to have been their fiddler. It is also said that when the moon is full, the stones move around in a ritual dance.
While we are talking, behind me, a young man starts to spin slowly in the centre of the circle – not quite my idea of a dervish, but his eyes are closed and his concetration absolute. He claims “most of the villagers are right behind the protesters, because they don’t want a four-ton truck loaded with gravel passing their little cottages at 6am, do they?”
Beyond the gentle stir of the wind in the leafless trees, you can hear the beeps and churning from Dale View quarry, less than a mile away. If digging was allowed any closer, the serentity and spiritual value of the Nine Ladies would be completely destroyed.
But it’s not all about pagans who cherish the site for sacral purposes. During the next afternoon, scores of couples, strolling families and locals walking their dogs pass by as they hike over the moors. There’s even a group of six or seven Sheffield youths having an impromptu picnic, despite the fact that the grass is damp and there’s a bitter nip in the February air.
Another walker, Jenny Blain, joins us on the grass at the centre of the circle, and tells me she is researching “how people relate to landscapes” at Sheffield Hallam University. She emphasises the academic value of the site: “This is important to archeologists with an interest in prehistory, who study the cairns and kist graves. Then there are archeologists of the early modern period, as well as scientists who come to study the bats here – there are two protected species.”
Jenny points out that “the special feel of the Nine Ladies comes from that fact that they are part of a bigger landscape. This means so much to so many people – and locals join in at festivals like Imbolc (ewe’s milk, for when sheep lactate in spring).”
The Peak District, like other national parks, came about when the gentry and working class ramblers united to stem industrial expansion; as that lobby has dwindled, new alliances are needed.
Lonely as it is on the hilltops and among the burial mounds, the Nine Ladies are close to dozens of villages. Old pubs and B&Bs – from farms to hotel-style townhouses. After a day of cold, clean air and Woden-knows-what spiritual blessings from the Nine Ladies, I am in my bed – in a converted barn -by 9pm.
The Peak District serves more than just the north-west, though – it is central enough for Londoners to get to the Nine Ladies easily, too. I travelled from south-east London to 2500BC in just three and a half hours.
The following morning, before making the return journey, I drive up to Stanton Moor to see the Nine Ladies one more time. The daffodils are still there and, for the first time this weekend, there’s no one else around. After a quick look about me, I stride to the centre and stand in the empty space – and even gyrate slowly to see if any thing happens. My sullied modern sou is not transfigured, but the circle is profoundly calming and, thanks to Bronze Age man’s meterological intuition, protected from the harsh elements of the Peak winter.
After a quick stroll over the moor, frightenting partridges and watching the sun struggle to break through the clouds, I turn round and, cross the hill above the disused quarry. I head back down the side where the protesters are sleeping in their makeshift tree houses and where, just a mile or so down the valley, Lord Edward Manners is no doubt tucking into his breakfast of kippers and cold meats.
A vicious February northeasterly is now blasting and I leave the bare, exposed beauty of Neolithic England for the refuge of the car.
travel.guardian.co.uk/saturdaysection/story/0,8922,1157705,00.html
Protesters Dig in to Save Landscape from Quarry: 'It'll cost millions to get us out'
by John Vidal, environment editor of The Grauniad
14 February 2004
One of Britain’s most historic landscapes is about to become the scene of a passionate encounter between conservationists, local communities and industry as protesters start to flock to a small valley in the Peak District national park.
At stake are the long abandoned Endcliffe and Lees Cross quarries at Stanton Lees in Derbyshire. Overgrown with ash, birch and beech trees on steeply sloping land leading up to the bronze age Nine Sisters stone circle ancient monument on the moor above, they have been worked for many centuries on a small scale to provide local stone. But they are about to be massively expanded to provide 3.2m tonnes of some of the most sought-after sandstone in Britain.
Before work can start, however, a battle of the intensity of the road protests at Twyford Down and Newbury in the 1990s looks inevitable. The 32-acre site has been occupied for four years by protesters who have already built more than 25 tree houses and dug a com plex of deep tunnels and defences in stone cavities. After a high court case last week, which gave the Stancliffe Stone company permission to evict them, they expect hundreds of people to join them. ...continues here...
The threat of eviction continues to hang over the Stanton quarry Eco-warriors after planners called for a further report on the legality of the protest camp.
A Peak District National Park (PDNP) planning committee examined the Stanton Moor site on Friday morning at the request of the Stanton Action Group (SAG) and the parish council.
A decision on whether to take enforcement action against the Eco-warriors could be taken by PDNP members in July after the full report is published.
The protesters have been campaigning for three years against proposals to reopen the quarry.
John Bull, chairman of the PDNP planning committee, said: “The real issue on Stanton Moor is whether these quarries should be reopened.
“However, we need to consider all aspects relating to this proposal and that is why we have asked for a further report.”
But the protesters, who have erected at least 47 structures on the site, say Friday´s decision has only increased the anxiety over possible eviction.
Campaigner Ben Hartley said: “Indecision on the part of PDNP has left us to worry for even longer. But at least the report will give more people an informed view.”
With the site occupation approaching four years, planners had feared the protesters could exploit a planning loophole which gives protection to permanent buildings after that time.
More at:
matlocktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=749&ArticleID=529747
Action Stalled Against Stanton Moor Protestors
The Peak District National Park Authority today agreed not to take legal action that could have led to the eviction of protestors campaigning against the proposed re-opening of two quarries on Stanton Moor in the Peak District.
The Authority’s Planning Committee had been concerned that the protestors, who are occupying Lees Cross and Endcliffe Quarries, could break planning regulations, but it decided it would be inappropriate to take action at this time.
Tony Hams, Chair of the Authority, said, “The real issue at these quarries is whether they should be re-opened. Stancliffe Stone Ltd, the quarry company, want to restart work on the sites. They submitted proposals to us in 1999, under the requirements of the Environment Act (1995). We are still awaiting information from the company before we can consider their application.”
More at: nineladies.uklinux.net/upd0203.htm
Sadly, another protester on Stanton Moor died last week in a fire. More on the story can be found here:
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1861000/1861573.stm
Some of you might have read in the Guardian last week that this issue was resolved. It was reported that a compromise had been agreed and that the Nine Ladies were safe from quarrying. Unfortunately, this is not true and looks like it will not be resolved until May of this year. So the good people up in Derbyshire that are fighting to ensure the future of this most beautiful site are still in need of your support. Don’t forget them!
I am very sad to say that a good Derbyshire woman named Dian Case has passed away. She was passionate about saving the Nine Ladies (and was a long-time campaigner for any endangered Derbyshire countryside). R.I.P.
After not quite having time to get here in the past, I knew I would have ample time on this visit to soak the Nine Ladies in properly.
On arrival to the clearing in the woods, I could see there was plenty of life around (as I had expected there to be) – a couple of tents, and plenty of walkers passing through after brief stops to look at the stones.
It undoubtedly has an atmosphere here, but it also feels somewhat ‘unloved’, in a way. Even though it was a beautiful sunlit clearing, it felt a bit lifeless. No birds or butterflies – more like a vibe of a public play area – like a swing set or see-saw should have sat there. Again, I guess that may be due to the campers playing nearby – I’m sure another day it would feel very different.
That said, it’s a great little circle itself – clinging on to it’s surroundings – making the best of what it can offer us.
Visited 27.5.13
We parked on the small lane to the south of Stanton Moor and myself and Dafydd headed onto the moor whilst Karen stayed in the car with Sophie.
There are several ‘paths’ criss-crossing the moor and they all see to end up at the stone circle eventually. We took the path which led past the Gorse stone and tower.
Upon arriving at the circle we were met with several families who were obviously taking advantage of the (for a change) nice Bank Holiday weather. The sun was shining through the trees and all was well with the world.
There is ‘something’ about a stone circle in a woodland setting who always makes a visit a pleasure – this was no exception.
The stones were a little larger than I was expecting and it was nice to report that despite the obvious number of people who visit the circle there was no sign of litter / fires / damage etc. (Are you reading people of South Wales!)
I was surprised to find there are actually 10 stones here – a large stone lying flat on the ground. Perhaps one of the dancing maidens was drunk!
Have you noticed that when visiting a stone circle most people (myself included) tend to walk around the entire outside first before entering the inside? I wonder what that tells us about the human psyche. This is too deep for me to ponder!
The Kings Stone was easy to spot but has suffered more than the circle stones.
Still, at least it is still with us and hasn’t been destroyed or knocked down.
This is a great place to visit, particularly if you were able to get time here alone.
A place I would like to visit again if I am ever back in the area and given how picturesque the Peak District is, I am sure I will be.
Another English Heritage site ticked off the list – nearly half done now!
Visited 11th November 2012
We parked up opposite the Andle stone today, and taking advantage of the fine weather walked across Stanton Moor, passing the Cork Stone, to the Nine Ladies.
It’s been about five years since I was last here, though I’ve visited so many times, as it’s the closest stone circle to where I live, and sometimes I think you forget just what treasures you can find on your doorstep, as I wonder why I’ve left it so long to come back. The circle looks perfect in todays sunshine, and as usual is busy with walkers.
As mentioned in previous posts this place has a joyful atmosphere and it is truly beautiful here, it’s nice to re-connect with the circle on this crisp winter’s afternoon. The low sun is throwing some great shadows, which nicely pick out the low mound on which the stones are set.
Walking up to the King stone it seems as if the poor outlier is leaning at a more severe angle than I remember it, but perhaps it’s just my memories playing tricks. I certainly vow not to leave it so long until I return again next time!
Thank you to those that fought to keep this circle for all of us to still visit and enjoy.
I visited the Nine Ladies for the first time a week ago today. What an amazing place it is. When I arrived there we’re a couple of elderly lady back packers having a rest on the stones and a traveling man hanging out in the sun with them. He was a really nice guy, blissed out with his acoustic guitar and hammock in the trees, not a bad life!
I approached in the car through Stanton on Peak, keeping straight on (left turn) onto Lees Road and didn’t follow the Brichover Road. If you take Lees Road then just keep going up the hill through the trees until you reach the brow of the hill where there is a lay-by to park and a path that will lead you towards the circle.
The Nine Ladies is a very magical place to visit for the first time, maybe every time, I look forward to the next visit to find out. The condition of the circle and the surrounding ground was well kept and mostly litter free, there was a really, really good and positive feel to the place, it regained a feeling of mystery and secrets despite the harsh treatment it has obviously been subjected to. It’s a little sad to read some of the field notes here and the sad state this place has been found to be in the past. I am happy to report I felt supercharged and in love with this ancient place that has survived and inspired people to make sure it survived against very tough odds.
It’s been dug, it’s been camped on, it’s had fires lit in its centre, but Nine Ladies remains a wonderful, must-visit site. Situated in a perfect fairy clearing amongst silver birch trees, it has a lovely atmosphere. I arrive to find no-one there, amazingly. Apart from one sheep, who steadfastly refuses to move from the circle and appears in all the pictures I take. Well, she was here first after all. It’s funny the things you notice on a repeat visit. I notice the embanked nature of the circle, as well as the fact it’s actually on quite a slope. To be fair, I’ve usually been here in either thick mist or heavy rain (while an archaeological dig was underway), neither of which do much to aid a proper consideration of the place. The King’s Stone outlier seems to be in a sorrier state that I remember, not only graffiti’d but it has had a chunk knocked off along the top edge, exposing the redder stone under the weathering. I stay for a while, until a family arrive and the children have their pictures taken in the circle (hopefully the start of their own stone-appreciation?). I head east, noticing what look like some small cairns in an area that’s been cleared of vegetation.
We visited there today, late evening just as the sun was setting. The ‘vibe’ seemed ok.
We were fascinated by the near by tree hung with ladies knickers! Does anyone know what that’s all about??
A special place – does not suit everyone. Ancient burial mounds litter the moor, and there is a strong sense of presence here. Visited the protest camp and didn’t like it...
Don’t got hrough the camp. Park up on the other side from Doll Tor, where there is a place for a couple of cars, and a path leading up. If you find the right place, the paths lead straight there. You may see something that looks like a castle tower but is really a folly – you are near it if you see that, only, it is further in the moor than the tower.
To me, feels like a place of death and rebirth – a dealing with stuff kind of place. The walk along the edge of the moor is beautiful – especially at night. If it is foggy, the industrial works look for all the world like Mordor, complete with tower!
For me, I always stay very much on my guard here. It isn’t a place to relax for me... I’ve been many times, but very rarely met anyone I liked there, as opposed to other places where I meet a lot of nice folks. Something about the place – not a play area, lol.
You can camp up there – not supposed to, but you can. You can have a fire – sadly too many fire pits – little wood – people chop downt he birches, and there are far fewer now than ten, fifteen years ago. It’s a well known site, so a lot of people camp up there – there’s ususally someone there, no matter whn you go! Attracts a lot of people who are camping out having some beers – one of those kind of vibes.
In the evening has a very Lord of the Rings feel, and if you get it to yourself, enjoy the ride!
X
Definitely one of the more peculiar visits I’ve ever made to a stone circle.
Arrived in Matlock late, on the way down south, and thought ‘What the hell, it’s not dark yet...’ Predictably, by the time I was half way there it was dark. But that’s no problem. The Quarry site is impossible to miss, and the nice ‘eco-warriors’ (daft label) have enough banners to direct the hapless nocturnal wanderer.
Equally helpfully, on a friday night, the dark isn’t as much of a problem as you only have to follow the sounds of the drums...
However, I wouldn’t reccomend this route. It involves scrambling up the side of a slope that could be classed as a cliff in places, with sufficient foliage in summer to make it pitch black.
I was shocked at how close the old quarry is to the stones, to think of starting it up again seems gut-wrenchingly vile. The landscape around here has already been trashed enough. For example the highly unplesant mineral processing factory on the road to Matlock, which thrums and glows in the night like a giant malevolent predatory alien insect. Bleurgh!.
Here’s hoping the quarry remains forevermore dormant, and also that the toxic factory gets bored and flies back to its home planet. Leaving Stanton moor to recover it’s dignity and peace, with no need for caravans up trees or tunnels beneath them.
September 2003 The first thing I noticed when approaching the Nine Ladies was the pristine state of the turf and the tell-tale traces of the plastic netting beneath that peeps through in a couple of places. The neatness and tidiness of the grass give the circle a bit of an artificial modern air but I can’t really recall how the placed looked when I was last here a few years ago. Once the wild grasses and flowers have started seeding themselves in the new turf the place will look a lot more natural but it’s already a huge improvement judging from some of the previous photographs of the site. One thing to note though is that you’ll be lucky to get the place to yourself as it is popular with families, couples and walkers at weekends, but I’ll bet it’s a cracking place first thing in the morning or in winter. As for the stones themselves, there are of course 10 now, I think the one discovered in 1979 is the fallen slab to the east of the circle – there may originally have been more. The diameter of the circle is about 10 metres and there is a faint trace of an outer bank and what may have been a small cairn or earth mound near the centre and according to Jacquetta Hawkes there were entrances to the northeast and southwest. At least one of the stones (to the east) has some kind of (modern?) carving on it as does the King Stone which is now known not to have been an outlier but once formed part of a now destroyed cairn. For some reason I had remembered the King Stone as being larger than it is – it’s only a tiny little thing.
When there are people around it’s difficult to feel any kind of atmosphere at the circle and the traces of fires and bit’s of rubbish around the place don’t help, but when you get a couple of minutes of solitude then the place still has a little touch of magic about it. The small copse of trees block any views to the north and east, it could be that the eastern view towards the Derwent was obscured by a small rise in the land anyway and it’s difficult to tell whether the Wye valley to the north could have been seen from the circle.
Very lovely setting, surely no-one wants to destroy this. Great walk to get here with so much to see on the way. It looks very manicured at the mo, with it’s turf base neatly cut, but still great ambience.
Toby and Mell went to Utoxetter to visit Tracy and Andrew, we went to see the 9 Ladies and it was all quiet. No Eco-Protestors or their opposite numbers.
We enjoyed the stones and the solitude, all around the site there was the evidence of previous visitors fires but we were alone that night. We had a b-b-q and a small fire of wood we gathered, with added pine cones.
After sundown we walked back to our car and drove home.
I’m rather proud to have started off the demolition of the rather ugly surrounding wall back in 1982. Several overnight stops later half of it was gone. Shortly after, the then DOE took what was left of it away. I’d like to thank all who did their bit as it moved at an alarming rate!
I spent several nights in Nine Ladies back in the early eighties and was always facinated by the effect the circle has on sounds after dark. My friends and I likened the effect to that of talking down the middle of a bog roll tube. It kind of amplified the voice and gave it a wispy effect. There’s a lot written about the causes of this so I won’t regurgitate that here – however, I would be interested to read of anyone else’s experiences of this, either at Nine Ladies or any other Stone Circle.
Groggy
Visited August 2001:
Some kind soul had erected a very roughly painted wooden sign by a very clear track. We chanced it. A longish walk through the woods somehow lead me and Kath to this charming stone circle. There were a couple of people camping in the woods about 30ms off, but other than that we had the place to ourselves. After the 12 mile ride earlier that day, Kath did nothing but lie in the dappled sun and drifted off.....I got out my paintbox and sketchbook and all was peaceful.... I have only since found out about the painful struggle fought by the eco-warriors to defend its very existance. Good on ‘em. This delightful place exudes fairy charm, certainly a place where the little people live and dance and sparkle. We sat and lost ourselves here for 2 hours or more.
This is a nice spot and is enhanced by the walk over the moor with all of it’s features and megalithic oddities. Stu reassures me that the site looks a lot better now that it’s had a good coat of looking at.
The setting amongst the birch trees and with the new turf give the site a park – like quality.
I liked the tree with all the bobbles and ribbons on it. It gives a focus to folk who feel the urge to leave their hair care products at this ancient site, although I think a used bobble is pretty crappy gift to leave. At least they’re not strewn all over the stones.
Only my second visit here – last time I came it was in a big group (8 of us in total), and was a nightmare visit from start to finish. The site itself seemed gloomy at the time, and after reading all the horror stories, I thought I’d seen enough of the place. This time we had been staying with friends in Sheffield on Saturday night, and so the four of us visited here after seeing the Andle Stone and Doll Tor. My mind is now totally changed – the site seemed so much bigger. The sky was clear above and so we took the opportunity to sit by the site and take it all in. It was quite peaceful with the distant rumble of traffic barely audible. I’m now definitely a Nine Ladies convert!
Made my first visit to the Ladies last weekend. And what a weekend! Continuous rain and heavy mist/low cloud made for a magical visit.
Like a fool, I got the approach wrong and started out from the base camp at the base of the quarry. You have to admire the protesters, living in those conditions! The climb was extremely muddy and quite difficult, but I eventually made it to the top, soaked to the skin.
Due to the weather I couldn’t stay as long as I wanted, nor could I explore the rest of the moor, but I took some photos and made it back to the car safely.
From what I could see (shrouded in the mist), this is a wonderful site, quite breathtaking in it’s splendour. I’d read quite a bit about the restoration work to be undertaken and was prepared to be disappointed, but the conditions I saw it in were optimal, and the site was simply awe inspiring. Maybe I’ll have to visit in fine weather to be disappointed?
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Not much to add really, from the other posts and what I’ve read elsewhere, about casual vandalism of the site (whether ritualistic or through carelessness), I’ve been put off visiting this site for a long while, and I dare say I brought this attitude with me.
A sweet small stone circle (local millstone grit, none taller than 1m) in a wooded area, which has become incorporated into an easy circlular walk across Stanton Moor, with nearby convenient free parking.
The surrounding area is beautiful, and includes many cairns, but the area directly surrounding the site has several blackened remains of campfires and the tops of nearly every stone which make up the circle show signs of heat damage where fires (tealights, etc?) have been set upon them.
V & P Morgan (Rock Around The Peak) mention that the circle was once surrounded by a bank, and at the centre of the circle was a stone cairn, both of which have now all but disappeared.
As far as I can tell the site has three parties looking out for its interests (English Heritage, Peak National Park Authority and the land owner), but as it is open access and is ‘...one of the most well known sites in Derbyshire’, it’s looking a bit torn and frayed.
wednesday 22nd may 2002
my first stop on the long trip to callanish..
passed the remains of the protestors’ camp on the way up; seemed very deserted.. when i reached the stones, i didn’t feel very welcome, the place was a sad mess, rubbish all over the place, ashes and debris from several big fires, and a generally unhappy atmosphere.. no wonder!! some bloke apparently from the camp totally off his nut collapsed on top of one of the stones.. in fact the whole place seemed to be screaming out to be left well alone, even by those with supposedly good intentions.. abused and misrepresented i felt.. the stones themselves too damaged and the genii loci of the place too angry to show what the nine ladies once stood for.. how very sad to have ruined such a lovely place.. didn’t stay long.
Visited the Ladies today (14/04/02) and some fool(s) have been out with the tea lights overnight (we can pin it down to last night as we know someone who went yesterday).
What possesses someone to be so disrespectful?
Grendel
.....went to visit on monday evening in the rosy early spring evening light, and how fantastic it looked...........there amongst the birch glades, absolutely perfect. An all too brief sojourn( I had to get to Rowsley for the last Manchester bus of the night ) of some half an hour......but it felt like longer, and certainly was some of the best quality time I’ve had this year.............they just can’t destroy this area, I’d take it over many a bigger site in terms of tranquil setting...........one of the absolute best.
I lived in the area during my childhood and must confess the whole site
feels dead.During my youth many teenagers would congregate at weekends for rave parties around the circle because it was secluded ,surrounded by trees with the circle in a little glade in the centre. These
parties continued for some time during which firewood was taken from the trees to make fires and before long the whole place was just an area of burnt fire circles and dead trees. During one party some stupid traveller bloke, being pissed on brew, reversed his car/lorry into the heel stone (or fiddler) and broke it. They ruined this site for everyone. It used to be a wonderful place to go at night and watch the stars after a pint in the Flying Childers.
mind you at least the walls surrounding the stones have gone(yes walls
i said!)
Poor nine ladies. visited last week and was disappointed by how the site is treated. Stones broken. People thinking they are to be used like a picnic bench (’hey if you sit on this one it like vibrates!’ was the cry of one idiot). Beer cans, burnt out tea candle tins. I stayed about 5 minutes having just come from the magnificent Arbor Low. Thankfully there are many other peaceful spiritual places in the peak that require a bit more than a stoned shuffle from a car to see. I havent heard anything about the quarrying proposal recently. Can anyone enlighten me? Seems they have been quarried already. Pagan rituals....PAH! Self indulgent and deluded bullshit is what I see from most of the people that visit this place.
Sarah Miners
I first visited this wondrous powerful place in 1994 and we agreed that we would bring our children back to the moor as I felt a massive spiritual connection with the place.
Indeed in March 1999, we returned with our son Chalie and gave him his name in a pagan ceremony, with some dear friends, who each held chalie as I read a poem.
My hubby gave me the modern antiquarian two years ago as a xmas present and I immediatley truned to the gazetter section to read what was said – I cried as i realised that the power I had felt on the moor was part of a massive understanding – and that Julian had felt what I had felt too.
I dream of the moor and am angered to the extreme thaqt they may quarry – I offer my meager talents to the campaign in any way i can help – here and now – for I have just read the essays fromn the book and am recently starting on a pathway, where I have realised the significance of stanton moor, amongst other sites and special places, to my spiritual journey and well being.
It is one of the few places on this island where I have felt truy at peace and at one with the goddess – the other being at the Quirang on Skye. And I want to preserve this moor so my children can be connected with their names to the energy within the stones and can return with their childrn to my special place.
I can’t believe they are going to turn this place into a quarry, it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to. The stones are so delicate, and the light catches the atmsophere beautifully. When I visited them in 2000, there were people camped nearby, supposedly trying to save the stones, all I saw was abuse of them.
aaaah! the nine ladies of stanton moor – so peaceful so subdued so wonderful, its quite a long walk from the road from some directions but once there take your time and chill!!!!!!
my companion for the trip was my mother who had only ever seen Stonehenge in terms of a site.
whilst walking there she was complaining but on the return she had returned!
another magical moment
big article in the Guardian on Wednesday about this:
guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4016280,00.html
Further information
pages.zoom.co.uk/~nineladies/
pixie-inc.demon.co.uk/nineladies/
purelocal.co.uk/stantonlees1.htm
“Object lesson: the outward appearance of funkitude often belies a nature as stupid as any lager lad.”
:-)
9 ladies has had this before – one of the stones there got knocked over by car once as well – dunno if that was a during ritual though ...
I haven’t kept up with the plans to turn this amazing place into a quarry, but it seems from my experience that some so-called pagans are helping the process along.
I stayed there one full-moon night last year (around October), and the scene was wonderful for my first visit. There were naturally a bunch of other people there. Me and my friend Lee chatted to a few of them – they said they had met at a gay/bi pagan camp down south and were doing a ritual later on. They seemed cool, but we were tired and crashed before their ritual started.
Well, actually, before we got to sleep we were treated to the utterly bizarre spectacle of a large bunch of schoolkids being led around the circle by a few adults, singing really pagan-sounding nursery rhymes. They ended up doing the congo of onto the moonlit moor! Better education than I ever had...
Waking the next morning, Lee asked if I had heard anything during the night. Apart from the kids, no. He said he had heard what sounded like some sort of ritual, but it was interspersed with what sounded frighteningly like rocks being violently bashed together. I got up to look around, and sure enough, the few half-bricks and rocks that were scattered around the circle the night before were gone. A few of the circle’s stones had had chunks hacked off, with the tell-tale compacted bumps of soft rock left by bricks or whatever being smashed on them. Fragments littered the floor.
We were incensed, but there was no sign of life in any of the many tents around. We had to leave early, and as we didn’t want to shout blind abuse at sleeping people who may or may not have been responsible, we had to leave the arsehole culprits be. As far as I’m concerned, if they’re out there seriously trying to mesh with the pagan levels of reality, and doing *this* to stone circles, they’re cursing themselves anyway. Hope they have a really bad freak-out some day and wake up.
Object lesson: the outward appearance of funkitude often belies a nature as stupid as any lager lad.
It’s going to be turned into a quarry :-O
The image of an unidentified man dressed in black is said to be seen standing just outside the stone circle after dark. According to legend, the 9 stones are witches caught dancing on the Sabbath to the sounds of the Devil’s fiddle playing. In this view,the man in black could be the Devil admiring his handiwork. It is also said that when the moon is full, the stones move around in a ritual dance.
chris-moss.net/homesweethome/ancientbritain.html
TRIBE website
In the book ‘Place Names of the Peak District’ the King Stone is referred to as being a flautist and not a fiddler, who was turned to stone for playing on the sabbath.
A local violinist planned to visit the 9 Ladies one midsummmer’s night with his family....his aim was to take part in a duet with the ‘fiddler’ stone ( king stone ).
But in true Derbyshire fashion he never made it....
Tripped over a tree root and broke his bow.
This is very vague but. The heel/king stone was said to awaken and play the fiddle to the stones in the circle which would turn into Nine Ladies dancing around to his song. What night of the year etc. this happened i have forgotten, someone told me this story a long time ago
When people started visiting the 9 Ladies on Midsummer and Halloween, a local vicar said ’ The only things the 9 Ladies have seen are, boys smoking and their elders fornicating ‘.
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Roylow
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Five Wells
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Steep Low
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Tup Low
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Brund Low
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Stanshope Pasture
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Great Low
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Reynard’s Kitchen
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Wetton Hill Cairns East
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Fox Hole Cave
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Chelmorton Low
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Eyam Moor III
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Stanage
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Stanage II
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Chee Tor
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Eyam Moor II
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Eyam Moor Barrow
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Wet Withens
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Longshaw Estate
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Long Low
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Cup stone
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Brown Edge
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Sycamore Cave
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Warslow
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Lawrence Field
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Wetton Hill
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Wetton Low
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Burr Tor
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Hanging Bank, Ecton Hill
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Hitter Hill
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Blake Low
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Old Hannah’s Hole
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Wetton Mill Upper Cave
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Strawberry Lea
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Highlow Bank ring cairn
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Dafar Ridge Cave
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Wetton Mill Farm Fissure
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Bole Hill Hillfort
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Cheshire Wood Cave
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Mother Cap Stone
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Mill Pot & Cave
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Thirst House
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Nan Tor
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Beeston Tor Cave
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Harley Grange
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Highlow Bank Stone
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Southwest of Burbage Bridge
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Highlow Bank Cairn
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St Bertram’s
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Hatch-a-way
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Ossum’s Crag Cave
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Toad’s Mouth
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Thor’s Cave
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Thor’s Fissure Cavern
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Seven Ways Cave
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Ciceley Low
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Offerton Moor East
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Offerton Moor West
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Hathersage Moor Ring Cairn
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Cow Low
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Toads Mouth Cairn /
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Burbage Rocks
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Hind Low (Site of)
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Elderbush Cave
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Smelting Hill & Abney Moor
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Tideslow
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Fingerem Stone
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Dowel Cave
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Cop Low
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Winyard’s Nick
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Etches Cave
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Falcon Low
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Wind Low
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Town Low
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Upper edge
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Burton Bole
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Brownlow
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Carl Wark & Hathersage Moor
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Gospel Hillocks
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Hazelton Clump
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Musden Low
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Top Low and Net Low
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Musden Low (West)
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The Tong
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Musden Low (South)
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Dun Low
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Swinscoe
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The Holmes
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Hollins Hill
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Stoup High Edge
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Calton
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Ecclesall Woods 3
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Fox Low
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Harpur Hill Cairn
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Brood Low
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Waterfall Low
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Mayfield
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Osmaston Fields 2
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Ox Stones
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Staden
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Tinker’s Inn
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Grub Low
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