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Natural PlacesSite Name: The Galloway StoneCountry: England County: Cumbria Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Shap Nearest Village: Orton
Map Ref: NY58780994
Latitude: 54.483122N Longitude: 2.637722W
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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markj99 visited on 5th Sep 2020 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5 It nice to find a site that you don't have to walk 3 miles over moorland to visit.
The Galloway Stone is just such a site. Simply leave the M6 at Shap, turn L for Orton, then take the R turn to Salterwath just before the M6 underpass.
The Galloway Stone lies c. 50 yards to the L after 150 yards along this lane.
It looks like a large chunk of Shap Pink Granite so it can't be an erratic from Galloway.
The explanation for it's name may be that it was a marker on the Old Scotch Drove Road for turning onto the Galwaithegate or Galloway Road.
As an additional point of interest there is an Ordnance Survey Bench Mark Bolt on The Galloway Stone denoting a height of 98.8m.
Anne T visited on 2nd Apr 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5 The Galloway Stone, near Orton, Cumbria: Spotted this named stone on the map as we drove towards Orton to find refreshments. There were many other large (but not quite as large as this) stones in the vicinity. With the M6 Northbound carriageway almost immediately behind, and above, this stone, I could have been forgiven for thinking this was left over from building the motorway.
In close up, the stone is clearly pink Shap granite, and had a red tint in the sunlight. A big surprise was find the bench mark with its large rivet on top of the stone.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 3 Access: 5
Sitting just to the west of the M6 Northbound carriageway, just off the B6261 to the village of Orton, on a spur of the road leading down to Salterwath, this large chunk of pink Shap granite is imposing, even though it sits within a landscape of other large stones. At first sight, it looks as if it is left over from the building of the motorway!
It's name indicates that it came from Galloway during the ice age, although Shap, with its pink granite is located only 5km to the north.
There is a bench mark right on top of the stone, with an unusually large rivet, which took us by surprise.
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