Henriw Standing Stone

Nearest town:
Llanidloes (8km NNW)
OS reference:
SN964776
OS sheets:
136, 147
Latitude:
52° 23' 10.2 N
Longitude:
3° 31' 20.7 W
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Image of Henriw Standing Stone by postman

A stone in the hole. If like me you crossed the river this is your first sight of this bulky stone.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Aug 13, 2008
Image of Henriw Standing Stone by Kammer

Taken 25thy May 2004: The stone as you’re likely to see it driving along the road (the red arrow isn’t a landmark by the way).

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Sep 6, 2004
Image of Henriw Standing Stone by Kammer

Taken 25th May 2004: A close-up of the stone, as viwed from the road (it looks better through binoculars).

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Sep 6, 2004

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Henriw Standing Stone

postman
postman Aug 13, 2008

I do value my anonimity and always try to get in and out of anywhere without drawing attention to myself. So we elected to wander of the recognised footpath, only one problem , the river, which was in full spate. We eventually found a narrow enough place to jump and bob was my uncle. The menhir is square in section about eight foot tall and has a nicely sloping top into one corner. It’s a very bulky stone, a nice change to some of the tiddelers we’d seen at Y Capel and Kerry hill stone circles.
We tried to find the proper path on the way back hoping there would be a bridge, there wasn’t, not that we could find anyway, we shimmied along a tree branch that crossed the 6ft wide fast flowing river.
A really nice stone this one, good texture, ace place, a barrow in the next field, and for those with a spirit of adventure try the river crossing.

Henriw Standing Stone

Kammer
Kammer Sep 6, 2004

Visited 25th May 2004: To the east of the Cwm-y-Saeson stones is Henriw Standing Stone, a full metre taller than its neighbour but much less accessible. We spotted it from the road, which is probably as close as you can get to it without approaching a landowner. It’s behind a field boundary, so you have to find a spot where there’s enough of a gap in the foliage to see it.

Like the anorak that I am I had binoculars with me, which turned out to be useful (the stone is about 300 metres from the road). Must come back when I have more time and see if I can get a closer look.

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