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The Wainstones Natural Rock Feature Image © fitzcoraldo Also known as: Wain Stones Nearest Town: Guisborough (12km N) OS Ref (GB):     NZ558036 / Sheet: 93 Latitude: 54° 25' 28.27" N Longitude:     1° 8' 23.52" W Added by fitzcoraldo Images (16) Miscellaneous (3) 1 discussion topic Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Wainstones Flickr Google Google Images MAGIC The Megalithic Portal Bing Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

- Sites within 20 km - - Three Howes (Cold Moor) (1.89km SSW) (1 post) Drake Howe (2.02km WSW) (5 posts) Cold Moor (2.08km SSW) (1 post) Cheshire Stone (2.42km ESE) (2 posts) Billy's Dyke (2.77km E) (5 posts) Urra Moor Standing Stone (3.4km E) (6 posts) Urra Moor (3.41km ESE) (0 posts) Lord Stones (3.52km WSW) (11 posts) Urra Moor (3.89km ESE) (0 posts) Stone Rook (3.97km WSW) (6 posts) The Raven Stone (4.01km WSW) (5 posts) Round Hill (4.11km E) (4 posts) Trennet (4.4km S) (2 posts) Face Stone (4.46km E) (4 posts) Burton Howe (4.9km E) (1 post) Green Howe (5.17km SSW) (1 post) Live Moor (5.72km WSW) (0 posts) Battersby Moor Cross-Ridge Boundary (5.73km ENE) (7 posts) Tripsdale / Bilsdale Bride Stones (5.93km SE) (13 posts) Bilsdale Midcable Stone (6.52km SE) (2 posts) Live Moor Hill Fort, Whorlton (6.63km WSW) (2 posts) The Chair Stone (7.19km SW) (1 post) Kildale (7.27km NE) (1 post) Cammon Stone (7.67km E) (7 posts) Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn (8.58km NNE) (13 posts) Howe Hill, Newby (8.73km WNW) (7 posts) Great Ayton Moor Enclosure (8.75km NNE) (9 posts) Baysdale (9.05km ENE) (6 posts) Three Howes (Cockayne) (9.08km ESE) (0 posts) Iron Howe (9.09km SSW) (10 posts) Sour Milk Hills (9.11km S) (0 posts) Round Hill, Bilsdale West (9.19km S) (0 posts) Kildale Moor (9.22km ENE) (2 posts) Roseberry Topping (9.23km N) (43 posts) Near Moor (9.32km WSW) (1 post) Percy Rigg (9.44km NE) (5 posts) Newton Under Roseberry Stone (9.56km N) (4 posts) Percy Rigg Standing Stone (9.62km NE) (3 posts) Scarth Nick (9.63km WSW) (1 post) Little Hograh Moor (9.68km ENE) (3 posts) Duffin Stone (10.08km E) (1 post) The Seven Stones (10.26km WSW) (3 posts) Hanging Stone (10.45km NNE) (4 posts) Cod Hill, Sleddale (10.58km NE) (1 post) Commondale (10.66km NE) (23 posts) Kildale Un-named stone (10.67km NE) (4 posts) Westerdale Moor (10.75km ENE) (8 posts) Hambleton Street (11km SW) (2 posts) Hanging Stone (Helmsley) (11.02km SSE) (1 post) Commondale Moor (11.02km NE) (2 posts) Highcliff Nab (11.43km NNE) (7 posts) Gisborough Moor (11.59km NE) (1 post) Crown End, Westerdale (11.6km ENE) (2 posts) Thimbleby Moor (11.65km SW) (4 posts) Three Howes (Guisborough Moor) (11.68km NE) (1 post) Margery Bradley Standing Stone / Flat Howe (11.78km E) (6 posts) Thimbleby Moor Nine Stones (11.99km SW) (22 posts) The Bridestones (12.13km NE) (8 posts) Western Howes (Westerdale) (12.42km E) (1 post) Hob on the Hill (12.49km NE) (7 posts) Low Crag Dyke (12.51km ENE) (3 posts) Horn Ridge Cross Dyke (12.59km ESE) (0 posts) Blakey Howe (12.64km E) (8 posts) Mount Pleasant (12.88km N) (3 posts) Little Blakey Howe (12.95km E) (7 posts) Sand Hill (13.19km ENE) (2 posts) Box Hall/Castleton Moor (13.24km ENE) (2 posts) Old Wife (Lund Ridge) (13.47km SE) (0 posts) Eston Moor Carved Stone (13.66km N) (8 posts) Blakey Ridge Handstone (13.8km E) (4 posts) Obtrusch (13.85km ESE) (6 posts) Black Howes (13.88km NE) (5 posts) Kettle Howe (14.02km E) (0 posts) Three Howes Rigg (Commondale) (14.1km ENE) (6 posts) Old Castle Hill (14.1km NE) (10 posts) Rudland (14.12km ESE) (2 posts) Eston Nab (14.39km N) (31 posts) Loose Howe (14.62km E) (0 posts) Loose Howe (14.62km E) (7 posts) Wolf Pit (14.65km E) (4 posts) Pind Howes (14.66km ENE) (6 posts) Kepwick Moor (14.73km SSW) (2 posts) Court Green Howe (14.9km N) (0 posts) Haw Rigg Barrows (14.9km ENE) (1 post) Danby Rigg Cross Dykes (15.01km ENE) (4 posts) Stone Ruckles (15.02km SE) (0 posts) Potato Nab (15.18km ESE) (0 posts) Moorsholm Rigg (15.19km ENE) (0 posts) Stony Ruck (15.24km ENE) (0 posts) Moorsholm Spring (15.24km ENE) (0 posts) Danby Rigg (15.24km ENE) (48 posts) The Old Wife's Stones Road (15.24km ENE) (3 posts) Pike Howe (15.26km E) (0 posts) The Old Wife's Stones (15.42km ENE) (0 posts) Lockwood Beck Farm (15.45km NE) (2 posts) Airy Hill Farm (15.64km NE) (4 posts) Freebrough Hill (15.85km ENE) (17 posts) Harland Moor (16.02km ESE) (5 posts) Harland Moor A (16.02km ESE) (3 posts) Gerrick Moor Dyke (16.37km ENE) (1 post) Harland Moor B (16.65km ESE) (1 post) Gerrick Moor 1 (16.69km ENE) (3 posts) Herd Howe (16.72km ENE) (7 posts) Gerrick Moor (16.78km ENE) (6 posts) Harland Moor D (16.79km ESE) (1 post) Harland Moor E (16.86km ESE) (1 post) Peat Hill (17.03km E) (1 post) Rokan Stone (17.05km E) (8 posts) Sandy Lane Standing Stone (17.11km NNE) (4 posts) Elm Lodge, Danby Low Moor (17.26km ENE) (3 posts) Soapwell Wood (17.27km NNE) (0 posts) Sandy Lane (17.38km NNE) (1 post) Robin Hood's Butts (Gerrick) (17.43km ENE) (4 posts) Hart Leap Stones (17.64km E) (2 posts) Patterson's Bank (17.67km NNE) (21 posts) Glaisdale Rigg Roadside Stone (17.74km E) (2 posts) Glaisdale Rigg Stone (17.74km E) (4 posts) Upleatham (17.76km NNE) (7 posts) Three Howes (Spaunton Moor) (17.99km E) (1 post) Flat Howe (18.12km E) (0 posts) Upleatham (18.18km NNE) (1 post) High Snapes (18.21km ESE) (0 posts) Shunner Howe (18.26km E) (2 posts) Glaisdale. 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Rare Footage of Yorkshire Rock Art Pioneers at the Wainstones. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQEEeSstkZc Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by fitzcoraldo 22nd November 2006ce

Refer to the above illustration The pictured inscription was found by The Rev John Graves and reporduced in his "History of Cleveland" published in 1808. He speculates that the inscription was part of the "ancient cromlech". Ord in his "The history and Antiquities of Cleveland" of 1830 comments; "If I have committed any error in the pursuit of these difficult enquiries, I shall not stand alone........ On visiting the place he found the "explanation" very simple indeed. Alas for antiquarians! and alas for Mr graves! this mystical inscription is nothing more than a simple love story, a pure true heart record carved on the trysting-stone "long, long ago2, by some rustic swain, in the presence of his confiding mistress:- R.O. 1712 WOOING T.D. " Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by fitzcoraldo 10th September 2002ce

"Within this parish, on the summit of the mountain that overlooks the villages of Kirkby and Broughton, there is a singular monument, called by the neighbouring people, the Wain-Stones: which, according to the most pobable etymology of the word may denote the stones of lamentation, and are probably Danish, erected in memory of some Danish cheiftain slain here. It consists of a rude collection of stones some of the of an immense size, and all apparently in their natural position, except one which stands erect and appears to have formed a part of some ancient cromlech." The Hstory & Antiquities of Cleveland Rev. John Graves Pub. 1808 Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by fitzcoraldo 3rd April 2002ce