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Natural PlacesSite Name: Kinknall Stone Alternative Name: King's StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.652 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:
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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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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