In the village of Howden, about 12 miles east of Selby and a mile or 2 north of Goole in East Yorkshire, I've come across records of a place first described in 1284 as 'Ringstainhirst.' There are several other similar spellings of the same site, which apparently had an old hermitage nearby which was associated with a St. Mary Magdelen's Chapel where there was a description from 1391 of 'heremitae de Ryngstanhyrste.' Is this a "stone circle in the wood" which we've all managed to miss?
Any East Yorkshire folk wanna find where this place might have been?
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1st October 2005ce
17:04 |
Lost stone circle to be found...? (Paulus, Oct 01, 2005, 17:04) |
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