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Marton Church

Artificial Mound

<b>Marton Church</b>Posted by postmanImage © christopher bickerton
This site is of disputed antiquity. If you have any information that could help clarify this site's authenticity, please post below or leave a post in the forum.
Nearest Town:Congleton (5km S)
OS Ref (GB):   SJ851680 / Sheet: 118
Latitude:53° 12' 30.56" N
Longitude:   2° 13' 23.23" W

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Marton church is the oldest east-west aligned wood framed in use church in western Europe. The large mound it sits on is prehistoric, it's roughly circular and seems reminiscent of the Hully Hill monument near Edinburgh, and maybe eight feet tall. In a prehistoric Cheshire book, I read a theory that from this platform the Winter Solstice sunrise rises in a notch in the hills, and the Bridestones burial chamber is there also. postman Posted by postman
23rd July 2006ce
Edited 25th July 2006ce