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<< Our Photo Pages >> Stoke Row Puddingstone - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Oxfordshire

Submitted by willowman1 on Monday, 02 October 2017  Page Views: 2049

Natural PlacesSite Name: Stoke Row Puddingstone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.426 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Oxfordshire Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Henley-on-Thames  Nearest Village: Stoke Row
Map Ref: SU6910684123
Latitude: 51.551773N  Longitude: 1.004701W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Stoke Row Puddingstone
Stoke Row Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 : The puddingstone beside the Stoke Row to Witheridge Hill road. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Stone in Oxfordshire

This is the last stone on Dr. Rudge's 'Puddingstone Track' that he saw personally. The 10 others beyond it, heading into Wiltshire, were reported to him by others in his later years, and he never visited them personally.

Most of this stone (conglomerate, not true Herts puddingstone) is below the surface, with the visible portion measuring 1.7m x 1.5m x 0.5m high. It can be found just north of the road between Stoke Row and Witheridge Hill - in private woodland, but easily accessible as it's only about 5 metres from the roadside.

Rudge described this stone as "a real beauty, with a legend" - but he never detailed the legend, and I can find no record of it. I suspect it was a misunderstanding of the story that, in the early years of the 20th century, local men tried to use chains and a steam engine to pull the stone out of the ground, but it refused to move. This probably mutated into a tale attached to many large stones, that it was 'immovable'.

It probably would have messed up the line of his Track if Rudge had known about the other puddingstones not far away, in Greyhone Wood and just west of Bromsden Farm. Not to mention the fact that all these stones were probably dug up from the numerous old chalkpits that used to dot the landscape hereabouts.

[As Willowman says really only of curiosity value as the puddingstone trail is really quite dubious as an idea - but fascinating nonetheless. Do a search for puddingstone trail to find the others - MegP Ed]
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Stoke Row Puddingstone
Stoke Row Puddingstone submitted by willowman1 : The puddingstone beside the Stoke Row to Witheridge Hill road. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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