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| Unclassified road between Birchover and Stanton in Peak. From Birchover head north on an unclassified road to Stanton in Peak, a little ways north of the entrance to the the quarry, there are two laybys; the first on the right, the next on the left. Park up in either. To your left is the Andle Stone, a large natural alter stone on a mound surrounded by a retaining drystone wall in the middle of a field. It is large and cannot be missed. Maintained by English Heritage and Peak National Park Authority, Doll Tor may be, but there are no public rights of way marked on the OS Land Ranger, so... Over the padlocked gate and head toward the Andle Stone, keep it on your right and walk past it. When you reach the field boundary (drystone wall), head for the gateway (infront and to your right) which leads into the field beyond. If you stand at the gateway, there should be a coppice directly to your left, a field infront and beyond that (to the left) a metal fivebar gate which gives access to another coppice of fir trees. Head for this gate (again locked). Beyond it is a trackway, the fir trees are to its left and a drystone wall to its right. Follow the trackway a 100m or so, keeping look out ahead for the white/reflective English Heritage information board (about the size of a tea tray, set at an angle, a couple of feet off of the ground). My impressions of Doll Tor is that it is pretty cute, which I am aware is inappropriate. At a guess you could fit a kingsize double bed into the circle, or that the circle might just fit in a single car garage. It is tiny. To the eastern end was added a rectangular-ish cairn, which it is possible to make out and understand from what is left at the site. One stone is double the length to its height. All the stones are low in height. There are many surrounding stones (there are in the whole area, perhaps that's why it's wooded?) Well worth a visit if the nearby Nine Ladies stone circle is busy, secluded and peaceful. CAUTIONARY NOTE (from 'Rock around the Peak', V and P Morgan)...be aware of a hidden deep quarry within twenty metres (to the south-west) of the circle. |
Posted by elderford 31st December 2002ce Edited 7th February 2003ce
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