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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wart Stone (Bradford) Alternative Name: Ash Stone (Bradford); Pin Stone (Bradford)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.986 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Bradford
Map Ref: SE15783412
Latitude: 53.803143N Longitude: 1.761883W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Standing Stone (Menhir) in Yorkshire (West)
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this now destroyed standing stone - see their entry for Wart Stone, Bradford, West Yorkshire. TNA tell us that this stone used to stand adjacent to the Holy Ash Well (now under Bradford City's Football Ground), but "for some reason it was uprooted and moved further up the hill around the end of the 19th century and was resurrected beside the old Belle Vue Hotel on Manningham Lane. From thereon however, I’ve not been able to trace what happened to it, and presume it’s been destroyed. It was known by local people to have had a ritual relationship with the adjacent healing well, to which people were said to visit from far and wide."
TNA adds: "It seems to have been described first by Abraham Holroyd (1873), who told us that: 'In Manningham Lane there is a fine well, in old deeds called Hellywell, i.e., holy well, in a field now called Halliwell Ash, now a stone quarry… Near this is the ancient Pin Stone.' The Bradford historian William Preston also made mention of the stone in one of his early surveys, where he told how local people also knew the stone as the Ash Stone, due to its proximity and ritual relationship to a great old tree."
This stone was also known as the Wart Stone, as it was said to cure people of warts and other skin afflictions.
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