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Photo Pages: Swinton Druid's Temple - Modern Stone Circle / Monolith in England in Yorkshire (North)
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Submitted by PeterCrump on Thursday, 19 August 2010 Page Views: 5539
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 Site Name: Swinton Druid's Temple Alternative Name: Druids Temple, Yorkshire's Stonehenge
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Modern Stone Circle / Monolith
Nearest Town: Masham Nearest Village: Ilton
Map Ref: SE174787
Latitude: 54.203756N Longitude: 1.734753W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Modern Stone Circle in Yorkshire (North). New Swinton Hall is a mile or so to the west of Masham, near Ilton. It was built by the owner himself, William Danby (1752 - 1833). His next project was the labour intensive work of creating another Stonehenge, with a shilling a day paid to the workers.
An enormous oval of altars, menhirs, dolmens, sarsens and other phallic and neo-Druidical paraphernalia was raised on the Yorkshire moors. Several solitary standing stones lined a ceremonial avenue leading to the temple. It is well preserved in the middle of Forestry Commission land.
A guide to the district dated 1910 claimed that "the builder of the temple offered to provide any individual with food, and a subsequent annuity, providing he would reside in the temple seven years, living the primitive life, speaking to no one and allowing his beard and hair to grow. It is said that one man underwent this self-imposed infliction for four-and-a-half years, at the end of which he was compelled to admit defeat.
Extract from Follies by Gwyn Headley & Wim Meulenkamp, published by Jonathan Cape in 1986 and 1990, now out of print. The new, expanded, fully revised and rewritten FOLLIES, GROTTOES AND GARDEN BUILDINGS by Gwyn Headley and Wim Meulenkamp, with photos on nearly every one of its 600 pages, is available at £20. ISBN 1-85410-625-2, published by Aurum Press, July 15 1999. More from the book, with a photo at Heritage.co.uk.
Note: A planning application underway to restrict access to the site with gates preventing use of the car park, the application is currently open for comments, link below
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Re: Stones stolen from the Druid's Temple (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, 12 January 2009 | The land is owned by the Countess of Masham - a delightful eccentric lady who has allowed the Brigantes Nation to stay there overnight after asking her very politely (of course no damage or distress to anyone or anything).
What's the score with the damage - it sounds like all the stones have been stolen from the PDF above - is this the case? There must be hundreds of tons of stones just in the main section let alone all the massive monoliths that are dotted around. Surely they could not all be stolen on 1 night? I love this spot and visit every couple of years and have been involved in oak tree planting up there with the Brigantes Nation.
Please someone reassure me that they have not all gone or tell me gently that the whole site has been destroyed. Not an ancient site but has a great energy.
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Re: Stones stolen from the Druid's Temple (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 17 March 2009 | | Take a look at the date on the pdf. Then read the other articles. And the piece in a green box at the bottom of the Bulletin. The one that mentions "April Fools". |
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Google earth Folly Maps (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Thursday, 29 July 2010
(User Info | Send a Message) | If follies are your thing:
From the Folly Fellowship,
We now have a new countrywide map thanks to the sterling work of Paul Brooker. This is not complete, and Paul intends to continue adding to it, but its the best we have so far - not only has he listed 500 follies, but he's added photos to around 350 of them. Many of these photos are taken from the Flickr and Geograph websites, so in this day and age, it is possible to compile this kind of map without actually stepping out into the undergrowth. Have a look belowand I'm sure you'll find at least some you haven't heard of before.
http://www.follies.org.uk/follymaps.htm
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Planning application including access restrictions to the site (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Thursday, 19 August 2010
(User Info | Send a Message) | There is a planning application in for the druids temple for 14 log
cabins and 20 glam tents and also an intention to restrict access to
the site with gates preventing use of the car park see harrogate
borough council planning site.
Ian Johnson
Harrowgate case number: 10/02543/FUL
Comments currently open
http://publicaccess.harrogate.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=L3UYJHHY64000
"Erection of 14 wooden lodges, formation of camp site with 10 fixed tents, childrens play area, car park, associated site facilities and installation of new package treatment plant."
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Re: Planning application including access restrictions to the site (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 20 August 2010 | | Please object to the planning proposal. It is a lovely spot that will be ruined for all of us because of the wishes of a few. Unacceptable. | [ Reply to This ]
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