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<< Our Photo Pages >> Thor's Stone - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in Cheshire

Submitted by TimPrevett on Sunday, 28 July 2019  Page Views: 14092

Natural PlacesSite Name: Thor's Stone Alternative Name: Thor's Rocks
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.476 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cheshire Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
 Nearest Village: Thurstaston
Map Ref: SJ2447484933
Latitude: 53.355861N  Longitude: 3.136203W
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:
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4 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
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Thor's Stone
Thor's Stone submitted by Bladup : The wonderful red sandstone of Thor's Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A large natural outcrop, and the highest point on the Wirral. Gives it's name to nearby Thurstaston.

The Nothern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this legendary rock - see their entry for Thor’s Stone, Thurstaston, Cheshire, which gives directions for finding this site, together with a photograph, a description and local folklore. TNA adds: "On Thurstaston Common a 298 foot high hill has a large red sandstone outcrop, on the landward side, known as Thor’s Stone. One large rectangular block of stone that is 50 feet in length, 30 feet wide by 25 foot high has been eroded over thousands of years. Described by J.A. Picton in 1877 as 'the Great Stone of Thor,' the village itself seemed to have gained its name from this prominent mass of rocks. It was described first of all in the Domesday book, as Turstanetone, and both village and rocks have been written as variants on the original ever since."

Note: Prof. Howard Williams visits Thor’s Stone on Thurstaston Common - more in the comments
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Thor's Stone submitted by Bladup : Thor's Stone (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Thor's Stone submitted by TimPrevett : On Thor's Stone near Thurstaston on the Wirral. The highest point on the Peninsula, views across to Liverpool and North Wales. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Thor's Stone submitted by TimPrevett : Part of the expanse of Thor's Stone near Thurstaston on the Wirral. The highest point on the Peninsula, views across to Liverpool and North Wales. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Thor's Stone submitted by postman : Side on (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Thor's Stone submitted by postman : Have you been to the Blue planet near Ellesmere ? don't, its well expensive, come here instead, it's not far, or both maybe.

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Thor's Stone submitted by postman : Groovey

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Thor's Stone submitted by Bladup : Thor's Stone.

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Thor's Stone submitted by TimPrevett : Part of the expanse of Thor's Stone near Thurstaston on the Wirral. The highest point on the Peninsula, views across to Liverpool and North Wales.

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Thor's Stone submitted by TimPrevett

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A visit to Thor’s Stone, Thurstaston Common by Andy B on Sunday, 28 July 2019
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Prof. Howard M. R. Williams writes: On a wet and windy Saturday, I explored Thor’s Stone on Thurstaston Common, Wirral.

This distinctive natural Old Red Sandstone outcrop is the Wirral’s equivalent of Dartmoor’s tors which were perceived by some antiquaries as monuments created as pagan altars. What makes this natural feature intriguing is that its purported association with pagan rites was:

1. very late, and not formed in the 17th, 18th or early 19th centuries, but instead being first proposed in 1877 by J.A. Picton,

2. rather than afforded a link with ‘Celtic’/’British paganism, the site’s pagan ritual attribution was part of a Victorian fascination with Old Norse paganism on the Wirral, related to the historical, place-name and archaeological hints of Hiberno-Norse settlement on parts of the Wirral peninsula from the early 10th century AD.

To my knowledge, there is no archaeological evidence for early medieval activity on this part of the Common

Read more at
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/thors-stone-thurstaston-common/
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Re: Thor's Stone by Andy B on Wednesday, 12 February 2014
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Thor’s Stone, Thurstaston, Cheshire on the Northern Antiquarian
http://megalithix.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/thors-stone/
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Re: Thor's Stone by TimPrevett on Monday, 01 September 2008
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I found a visit to Thor's Stone to be thoroughly underwhelming... perhaps it was the drive through Liverpool centre, the tunnel and finding the way out of Birkenhead beforehand... I expected something large and brooding, something perhaps like a sandstone version of Hay Tor on Dartmoor... just a bit of gorse scrub, and then suddenly you're on top of it. Nice views anyhow, but the locale seemed to lack definition or a focussed sense of place.
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