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<< Text Pages >> Kinknall Stone - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Cheshire

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Natural PlacesSite Name: Kinknall Stone Alternative Name: King's Stone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.233 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cheshire Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Warrington  Nearest Village: Culcheth
Map Ref: SJ649953
Latitude: 53.453279N  Longitude: 2.530025W
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.
2 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.
1 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
3

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Natural Stone / Glacial Erratic in Cheshire

Glacial erratic, about 1 metre high, standing in the private garden of New Kinknall, at the junction of Hob Hey Lane and Clifton Drive, Culcheth.

A comment in William Beamont's "The Fee of Makerfield, with an account of some of its lords, the Barons of Newton" (1872) may have some relation to this site:

"Culcheth ... puts in a claim to be that Celchyth in North­umbria, where the three councils of 786, 801, and 816 were held ... King Offa presided at the first two councils. Jaenbert was archbishop at the first, Ethelhard at the second, and Wulfrid at the third. (See Thorpe's Diplomatar. Anglic., 38, 45, and 72.)

"Archbishop Parker was of opinion that these councils were held in Northumbria, and both Sir Peter Leycester, a very careful investigator of our local antiquities, and Dr. Hook, think that Culcheth in Winwick was their place of meeting. (See P. Leycester's Hist. Chesh., i, 134, and Hook's Lives of the Archbishops, i, 250 n., 265, 279.) If Kenyon, which adjoins Culcheth, really means, as it is said, the place of tents, and Kinknall-within-Culcheth, means the king's dwelling, both may be memorials of these councils. (Whitaker's Hist. of Manchester.)"

"Old Kingnall Hall" and a moated site are shown on the 1849 25in. OS map about a hundred yards west of the stone, which is not itself marked.
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SJ6495 : Cut Mark Hob Hey Lane Culcheth by Monica Stagg
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Re: Kinknall Stone by Anonymous on Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Comments are about the glacial erratic. Perhaps I am being geologically imprecise - I can think of three other "displayed" glacial erratics within ten miles or so - but if you mean a boulder left behind, on the surface and on this actual site, by the retreating ice sheets, then I'd have to agree, in all these four cases, including Kinknall, they've been brought to the particular location by humans.

The others are at Taylor Park, St Helens, the Friends Meeting House burial ground, St Helens, and Peasley Cross, St Helens.
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Re: Kinknall Stone by Anonymous on Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Are comments supposed to be about the so-called 'glacial erratic', or Culcheth in general ? .... Here goes then. I very much doubt any moranic deposits being on the surface of the area known as the 'Lancashire Plain'.
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