>This pair of astonishing volumes contains many of William Stukeley's ORIGINAL drawings, letters, sketches, plans and watercolours... a beautiful ink drawing of the Rollrights (which he calls Rowldrich)...<

"Various speculations have been advanced from time to time as to the origin of the name "Rollright" or "Rollrich." In all these attempts to define the name it seems to have been taken for granted that the Stones give their name to the parishes of Great Rollright and Little Rollright, and not their name to the Stones. Stukeley considered the name to be derived from the Welsh "Rhol drwyg," the Druid's Wheel. In the "Pipe Rolls" of 1192 (Richard I) we find that Paganus de Parles owes ten shillings in "Rollendrich" in 1219 and 1236. In the "Patent Rolls," "Close Rolls," "Hundred Rolls," and "Calendars of Inquisitions" up to the year 1434 the name invariably appears with the termination as some form of "right," e.g., "rith," "ret," "rit," etc."*

* <b>The Rollright Stones</b> by T H Ravenhill. Cornish Brothers Ltd. Publishers to the University. Birmingham 1932