Bull Stone

The Bull Stone, Otley Chevin (near Ilkley) Standing six feet tall and reported to be nine feet in girth at it's widest point, resplendent in it's pastoral home! A Roman road skirts it's flanks apparently, but it's pretty hard to discern.                          Paul Bennet wrote that the most likely meaning of it's name came from 'bull-steean'; a stone for sharpening tools, or a whetstone. Though Slater said it may have come from a delightful old custom of fastening bulls to it whilst they were baited by hounds... Such quaint past-times these Carlton farmers had!   Grid ref: SE 206 435