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Giant's Foot Standing Stone / Menhir Image © baza Nearest Town: Appleby-In-Westmr. (13km NE) OS Ref (GB):     NY563148 / Sheet: 90 Latitude: 54° 31' 34.9" N Longitude:     2° 40' 31.04" W Added by baza Images (7) Fieldnotes (3) Links (1) 0 discussions Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Giant's Foot Flickr Google Google Images MAGIC The Megalithic Portal Bing Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

- Sites within 20 km - - The Goggleby Stone (0.56km WNW) (31 posts) Aspers Field (0.64km WNW) (21 posts) Shap Avenue (0.71km WNW) (3 posts) Skellaw Hill (0.99km WNW) (16 posts) Shap Barrow (1.06km WNW) (1 post) Thunder Stone (1.42km WNW) (12 posts) Kemp Howe (1.55km SE) (58 posts) The Shap Avenues (2.23km SSE) (47 posts) The Thunder Stone (2.3km ENE) (7 posts) Castlehowe Scar Stone Row (2.47km ENE) (4 posts) Castlehowe Scar (2.49km ENE) (36 posts) Hardendale Fell (2.6km SE) (4 posts) White Raise (2.78km WSW) (0 posts) Oddendale Multi-Phase Ring Cairn (destroyed) (3km E) (1 post) Gunnerkeld (3.04km N) (83 posts) Iron Hill (3.29km ENE) (31 posts) Oddendale Cairn I (3.34km E) (15 posts) Threaplands (destroyed?) (3.47km NE) (1 post) Oddendale Standing Stone (3.49km E) (9 posts) Oddendale (3.54km E) (49 posts) Wilson Scar (3.67km NW) (3 posts) Harberwain Stone (3.67km E) (2 posts) Seal Howe (3.82km E) (11 posts) Shapbeck Plantation (4.14km NW) (24 posts) Long Scar Pike (4.97km ESE) (4 posts) Wicker Street (5.12km ESE) (11 posts) Knipescar Common (5.13km WNW) (1 post) White Hag (5.43km ESE) (26 posts) The Galloway Stone (5.44km SE) (6 posts) Scarside Plantation (5.49km WNW) (0 posts) Shap Wells (5.5km SE) (5 posts) White Hag Round Cairn (5.67km E) (11 posts) Knipe Moor (5.71km WNW) (23 posts) Cow Green Long Barrow (5.93km E) (1 post) The Thunder Stone (6.75km ESE) (3 posts) Robin Hood's Grave (6.84km ESE) (1 post) Four Stones Hill (7.54km W) (29 posts) Raise Howe (7.59km E) (3 posts) Towtop Kirk (7.63km W) (13 posts) Penhurrock (7.83km E) (15 posts) Selside Pike (8.16km WSW) (6 posts) Broadfell Cairn (8.18km ESE) (2 posts) 13 Stones (8.32km E) (4 posts) Cairns A & B (8.86km E) (10 posts) Crosby Ravensworth Common (8.95km E) (0 posts) Thunder Stone (Great Asby Scar) (8.97km E) (3 posts) Gaythorn Plain (9.11km E) (6 posts) Hollin Stump (9.43km E) (7 posts) The Cop Stone (9.59km WNW) (26 posts) Castle Crags, Mardale (9.6km WSW) (4 posts) Low Moor (9.81km NW) (21 posts) Moor Divock (9.88km WNW) (8 posts) Moor Divock SE (9.95km WNW) (24 posts) Gamelands (10.11km ESE) (72 posts) Moor Divock Centre (10.16km WNW) (8 posts) Moor Divock Alignment (10.23km WNW) (5 posts) Skirsgill Hill (10.6km WNW) (1 post) Cockpit Cairns (10.6km WNW) (14 posts) Sunbiggin (10.65km E) (8 posts) White Raise (10.65km WNW) (12 posts) Low Raise (10.72km WSW) (3 posts) The Cockpit (10.87km WNW) (52 posts) Gaisgill (11.36km ESE) (3 posts) Leacet Circle (11.48km NNW) (34 posts) Swarth Fell (11.52km W) (21 posts) Clifton Standing Stones (11.53km NW) (19 posts) High Raise (11.54km WSW) (5 posts) Castle Folds (11.63km E) (18 posts) Little Kinmond (11.7km E) (4 posts) Lousy Brow 2 (12.71km E) (3 posts) Brougham (13.08km NNW) (2 posts) The Coombs, Martindale (13.08km W) (5 posts) Sunbiggin Tarn (13.31km E) (10 posts) Dunmallard Hill (13.76km WNW) (8 posts) Little Round Table (13.94km NW) (6 posts) King Arthur's Round Table (14.13km NW) (57 posts) Rayseat Pike (14.25km E) (23 posts) Mayburgh Henge (14.28km NW) (117 posts) Mazon Wath (14.31km E) (3 posts) Maiden Castle (Ullswater) (14.65km WNW) (8 posts) Winderwath (14.75km N) (8 posts) Skirsgill Standing Stone (14.82km NW) (11 posts) Honeypot Stone (15.29km NNW) (5 posts) Troutbeck Park (15.61km WSW) (7 posts) Beckstones (15.84km W) (21 posts) Mill Rigg Settlement (16.01km SW) (1 post) Druidical Judgement Seat (16.24km ENE) (9 posts) Dovedale Henge (16.75km WSW) (23 posts) Sewborrans (16.83km NW) (12 posts) Stag Stones Farm (16.98km NNW) (2 posts) Potter Fell (17.06km SSW) (6 posts) Hird Wood Circle (17.13km WSW) (17 posts) The Kirkstone (17.2km WSW) (13 posts) Mossthorn (17.55km NW) (4 posts) High Hugill Settlement (18.72km SW) (3 posts) Scober (19.54km ENE) (2 posts) Motherby (destroyed?) (19.62km WNW) (0 posts) Great Mell Fell (19.67km W) (12 posts) Rasett Hill (19.76km E) (2 posts) - Facilities within 20 km - - The Greyhound Hotel (Hotel: 0.5 km SE) The Bulls Head Inn (Camping Site: 0.5 km NNW) Parkfoot Campsite (Camping Site: 12.7 km WNW) The Sun Inn (Pub: 13.3 km NW) Queens Head Inn (Hotel: 13.5 km NW) Little Chef (Restaurant: 14.9 km NW) Side Farm (Camping Site: 16.6 km W) Eagle and Child Inn (Hotel: 19.2 km SSW) Watermill Inn (Hotel: 20 km SSW)

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Visited 02.06.13 The Giant's Foot is large recumbent stone on the W edge of Shap. It is considered by Historic England (go to Links) to be be a remnant of Shap Stone Alignment. It is an irregular flat stone measuring c. 9 feet long, 7 feet wide and 4 feet high. Directions: A path leading W starts off Shap Main Street between the tennis court and Croft Avenue. After c. 50 yards the path continues SW across a field for c. 120 yards to a junction of dry stane dykes. The path turns SE along a dry stane dyke for c. 50 yards to reach the substantial recumbent Giant's Foot stone. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by markj99 20th July 2022ce Edited 20th July 2022ce

Visited 18.9.10 Quite easy to find although it is not visible from the main road. When you arrive in Shap, park near the Kings Arms pub. Between the pub and the house next door is a public footpath sign. Follow this sign although it looks like you are walking up someone's garden. Over the stone stile and follow the path to the right. The footpath takes you straight past the stone. The stone was much bigger than I expected – approximately 1 metre high by 2 metres square. For some reason I really liked this stone and would recommend a look when visiting the other sites around Shap. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by CARL 7th October 2010ce

The Giant`s Foot stone lies just to the west of Shap, in a field behind the houses lining the A6. It is said to be one of the stones in the Shap Stone Avenue. GPS:NY 56297 14781 Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by baza 25th July 2003ce Edited 27th July 2003ce

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Historic England List Entry Number: 1011637 Shap Stone Alignment on Historic England Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by markj99 20th July 2022ce Edited 22nd September 2022ce