Sorry Baza, only just spotted your post here. Just been reading about the rocking stones - apparently a rugby team removed one of them a few years ago. I guess like me you're now screaming, banging the keyboard and wishing huge bolts of lightning to strike said rugby team.... I'm sure they had 'jolly fun' doing so, but *why*?

there is at least one other rocking stone *somewhere* around the rocks though... I must investigate soon. I've got a bit of a thing for Rowtor Rocks after my initial visit last week.

Wasn't the rocking stone toppled in the 1800's.
Near to Rowtor Rocks is Rockingstone Farm......the rocks up here were supposed to have a coupla rocking stones too.

<I>Pilkington in 1789 describes one large stone, "formerly an object of idolatrous worship, four yards high and twelve in circumference, so exactly poised that a child might easily give it a vibratory motion." We are told in all the later guide books that fourteen young men assembled on Whit Monday in 1799 with the intention of moving it still further. All agree that its equilibrium was disturbed and some describe it as now immovable," but this is not the case. Adam’s Gem of the Peak (1851) states that Mr. Thornhill at considerable expense had it replaced. He adds that the necessary apparatus was obtained from Chatsworth. The smaller stone to the north, about 5 feet long, can easily be rocked by one finger. At the west end are seven or eight more stones on top of one another which are said to rock.</I>

Extract from:
http://www.birchovervillage.co.uk/LocalHistory19.htm

which makes very interesting reading, if you are going to Rowtor Rocks.

baz