Lord Stones Boundary Stones, Carlton Bank
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Lord Stones Boundary Stones
The Lords Stones are prehistoric and define the perimeter of a Bronze Age burial mound. One of the stones is more significant than the others. This is known as the Three Lords Stone. This stone was named after the three Lords:- Lord Duncombe of Helmsley, Lord Marlwood of Busby Hall and Lord Aislesby of Scugdale. Their estate boundaries join at the stone.
Lord's Stones Boundary Stones
The Boundary Stones can be seen on the OS map as forming a right angle into green bank with the connecting longer side being the Coast to Coast path between Raisdale Road and a path leading off to Busby Moor.
Our first encounter with the Stones resulted in a tremendous surprise, following our descent from Carlton Bank on the Coast to Coast path towards Raisdale Road. We had the clear objective of rising up the next stretch of moorland on our route, Cringle Moor. After crossing the road, however, we found ourselves heading into a forested area on a paved track with wooden buildings around us, some of which were utterly unique in design and quite unexpected. Of course, we new nothing of Lord Stones Country Park, which we had just entered. The first wooden building we encountered was the cafe and then some strange buildings which were actually self catering accommodations.
Surprised as we were, and blissfully ignorant of the area, our curiosity was piqued as we left the park to wend our way to Cringle Moor. Rising out of the moorland grasses to our left we saw a standing stone, and were about to ignore it thinking it to be something to entertain children at the park. Being naturally curious, however, we went to have a more thorough look and could see that they were genuinely ancient in origin, not a single stone as we thought but a whole row of them, or rather, two rows of them, making a V shape.
Lord's Stones Boundary Stones
Lord Stone's Country Park
One of the unique self-catering holiday cottages
Coast to Coast Trail Guide
Hiking the Coast to Coast
Hiking the Coast to Coast is a digitally enhanced eBook available from Apple Books for all people who have either a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad, and is designed to accompany you on your walk of the Coast to Coast path. The trail guide contains advanced mapping features, step by step directions, hundreds of colour photographs and details of the route, its conditions in different weathers and research snippets relating to places of interest along the way.
The Trail Guide is availabe for immediate download from Apple Books for £12.99.
Lord Stone's Country Park
This is part of the Lord Stone's Restaurant in the country park.