Hare Stone

Also known as:
Harestone and The Hare Stone
Nearest town:
Stanmore (1km E)
OS reference:
TQ148927
OS sheet:
176
Latitude:
51° 37' 15.15 N
Longitude:
0° 20' 29.48 W
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Images

Image of Hare Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by MA Mark

The stone in its pre WWII position – thanks to the Harrow Local History Collection.

Image credit: Harrow Local History Collection
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MA Mark Dec 2, 2025
Image of Hare Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Zeb

The building behind this stone is now a Bluebeckers Restaurant but used to be a pub called the Hare. As seen on 22 November 2005 CE.

Zeb
Zeb Nov 24, 2005
Image of Hare Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Zeb

My friends add perspective to the picture. As seen on 22 November 2005 CE.

Zeb
Zeb Nov 24, 2005

Articles

Hare Stone

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MA Mark Dec 2, 2025

Whilst always using TMA to scope out a visit away from home for some inexplicable reason I’d never check closer to where I live – so having rectified this I had to visit The Hare Stone which is a couple of miles away.
Whilst in the London Borough of Harrow this is in a leafy area with very little development. There’s not a lot of information about the stone itself which (if you look at pre WWII photo) has been moved in the last century or even replaced by another stone? The Hare pub is a listed building historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079732 but no mention is made to the stone unlike the nearby Weald Stone which is listed historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1286172 (see separate TMA entry). The road and nearby woodland are clearly old and there is the ancient “Grims Dyke” nearby which seems to be Iron Age grimsdyke.com/grims-dyke-ancient-earthwork-of-harrow-between-myth-and-history/
The stone itself is sarsen and there are a few of these in other places in Harrow including Pinner Memorial Park.
In summary an interesting stone to see if you are in the area but no evidence of it having any specific ancient role.

Hare Stone

Zeb
Zeb Nov 24, 2005

Earlier in the year I stayed at the Lodge in Avebury and Andy Burnham told me about this stone. I work in Harrow and Andy, who is from close by, told me about the local sites. It took me a while to find this stone and kept asking colleagues who live locally if they knew of it. finally I was pointed to a restaurant in the Harrow Weald area which used to be a pub called the Hare (probably after the stone). I am also told that the name Harrow (famous for it’s public school) derives from ‘Hare’. Apparently Harrow Hill itself, where the school is, was sacred and used for worship but I am not sure how my colleagues come to know this.

I have yet to find out more about this stone and it’s more famous neighbour (the Weald Stone, OS ref: TQW150908) ) a mile or so down the hill. It looks like it has been broken in the past and I was wondering if it was perhaps part of an old tomb or burial mound.

I believe that further up the hill (the Harrow Weald hill, not Harrow-on-the-Hill) is an old earthworks but this is going to take longer than a lunch break to discover and so will it have to wait for another day.

If and when I find out more about this stone I will add information here.

Folklore

Hare Stone
Standing Stone / Menhir
Zeb
Zeb Dec 2, 2005

I had been wondering if “Hare” and “Harrow” had the same etymology and looked up Harrow in John Field’s book ‘Place Names of Great Britain and Ireland’. The entry for Harrow-on-the-Hill says it means “Heathen Shrine on the Hill”.

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