Barmby Moor

Nearest town:
York (17km W)
OS reference:
SE776489
OS sheets:
105, 106
Latitude:
53° 55' 48.38 N
Longitude:
0° 49' 4.81 W
Added to TMA by

Images

Image of Barmby Moor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by PTP309

I have a few more pictures of said Standing stone in the churchyard of St Catharine’s

Image credit: Barmby Moor Standing Stone / St Catharine's
P
PTP309 Jan 5, 2024

Articles

Folklore

Barmby Moor
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Nov 3, 2011

Barmby Moor.
On the south side of the churchyard lies a rude rough stone, measuring six feet in length, twenty-two inches in breadth at the wide end, and nine inches thick. After rain, water lodges in a weathered basin on its surface, which tradition says was a certain cure for warts.

Originally from ‘A History of Barmby Moor’ by W D Wood-Rees (1911), and collected in v6 of ‘County Folklore’.

I admit it, this is a bit of a speculative one as I can’t find a picture anywhere. It might turn out to be obviously, stupidly, too young. But if anyone sees it in the flesh they can report back. (Maybe the more I think about it the more it sounds unconvincing? One of its only mentions elsewhere on the internet also hopes for a prehistoric origin. That’s where I get unwarranted encouragement from.)

Sites within 20km of Barmby Moor

Like all websites everywhere, we use cookies.