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

Added to TMA by

Zeb

Images

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 Nov 24, 2005

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

Zeb Nov 24, 2005

Articles

Hare Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir

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.

Hare Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir

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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