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Text Pages: Huncote Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Leicestershire and Rutland

Submitted by enkidu41 on Saturday, 14 August 2004  Page Views: 2531
Megaliths in England Site Name: Huncote Stone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.0 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Leicester  Nearest Village: Huncote
Map Ref: SP523973
Latitude: 52.571017N  Longitude: 1.229762W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
no data 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
no data

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Standing Stone in Leicestershire and Rutland.
This stone is at the roadside on the boundary of Huncote and Croft parishes.

It was formerly embedded in a tree trunk and was removed and subsequently replaced (but possibly not in the exactly the same place) in about 1970 during road repair work.


Based on the description by, and used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland CD-ROM.

Huncote Stone submitted by enkidu41
Used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his <a href="http://www.hoap.co.uk/localhis.htm#ILKLR">Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland</a> CD-ROM.

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    Re: Huncote Stone (Score: 0)
    by Anonymous on Friday, 24 February 2006
    the stone is actually between Huncote and Narborough parishes
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    Re: Huncote Stone (Score: 0)
    by Anonymous on Thursday, 16 March 2006
    well i have lived in huncote now for over 16 years and i have been told all my life that this stone was put here for areason , to keep bad spirits away forthe villages of huncote and any one who would try to damage it in any way would be punished or cursed .
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    Re: Huncote Stone (Score: 0)
    by Anonymous on Sunday, 18 February 2007
    IT'S STRICKING ABOUT HUNCOTE, THE HUNCOTES CAME OVER WITH WILLIAM AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST IN 1066. I HAVE TRACED MY HUNCOTE ROOTS TO A WILLIAM HUNCOTE WHO IMMIGRATED TO VIRGINIA USA IN 1635.. HIS NAME BECAME ANGLISIZED TO HUNNICUTT, THEN TO HONEYCUTT. MY GRANDFATHER WAS HENRY HONEYCUTT OF KENTUCKY AND MY MOTHER WAS SUDIE MAE HONEYCUTT. MY NAME IS GEORGE BLEDSOE, MY PATERNAL ANCESTER WAS EMMIGRANT GEORGE BLETSOE FROM BLETSOE NORTHWEST OF LONDON IN 1650.

    THREE CHEERS OUR MOTHER COUNTRY
    GEORGE
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