Mayburgh Henge
Directions The Henge is just south of Penrith on the b1234. Head down the a6 and turn right at the mini roundabout after the Eamont River road bridge. Then 2nd right, there is a small car park on the 1str bend. The Walk to the henge is about 100 yards up the road.
Description The site consists of a single circular bank possibly built using cobble stones from the rivers "unlike other henge monuments, where earth from the digging of a ditch is piled up to form a bank. There is no evidence of a ditch at Mayburgh. Clare estimates that the bank contains c20,000 tons of stones (despite many being taken away over the years for other uses), and also points to an alternative theory that suggests that the "bank may have been formed by excavation and re-arrangement of a glacial mound.
LoNg Meg
About The shortest walk of all the stone circles as you park inside the circle itself.
Directions From Penrith follow the b666 baring left at Langwathby onto the b6666. Pass through and turn left at the crossroads. Follow the road when it bares right and over the cattle grid.
Description Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Bronze Age stone circle near Penrith in Cumbria
It primarily consists of 59 stones (of which 27 remain upright) set in an oval shape measuring 340 ft (100 m) on its long axis. There may originally have been as many as 70 stones. Long Meg herself is a 12 ft (3.6 m) high monolith of red sandstone 80 ft (25 m) to the southwest of the circle made by her daughters.
Long Meg
Log Meg Through some of her Daughters
Castlerigg
Parking is in the roadside with Castlerig gateways just over the road.
The Cockpit
This cane be approached from either Askham or Pooley Bridge about a half walk with soma gradient, paths are well maintained.
. Another easy to get to circle. Parking is roadside to the circle itself.
From Appleby down the b3333 turn onto the b555 after Orten the turn right to Knotland. 200 yards up the road and you are there.
Gamelands stone circle (grid reference NY640082) lies between the village of Orton and the hamlet of Raisbeck. It is an oval enclosure of around 40 large stones, all of which have fallen, together with three smaller stones. The stones are set into a slight bank. All of the stones are of pink granite with the exception of one which is limestone. The stones are all below one metre in height and are arranged in an oval of 42 metres by 35 metres.
The Bowder Stone
NOT a circle but one giant stone that is easily reached from the car park
