<< Our Photo Pages >> Broadfield Park Glacial Boulder - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Greater Manchester
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Broadfield Park Glacial Boulder Alternative Name: The Broadfield Park StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.474 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Greater Manchester Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Rochdale Nearest Village: Mitchell Hey
Map Ref: SD896130
Latitude: 53.613444N Longitude: 2.158675W
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sunny100 visited on 1st Jan 2009 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Fairly easy to reach once you are in the park.
A Glacial Erratic Boulder at SD.896130. This estimated five ton glacial boulder, made of Andecite, stands at the side of a footpath at the eastern end of Broadfield Park, Rochdale, close to the St Alban's road entrance and not far from the bandstand. It had originally stood in a field at Cowm Top farm near Castleton, but was generously given as a gift to Broadfield Park.
Apparently, it came from the Borrowdale area of the Lake District, having been dragged along by the retreating glacial flow - which moved south through NW England and the N.Midlands many thousands of years ago (11,OOO years ago) being the most recent Ice Age - there were others before that.
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