On my way up to Scotland, I stopped for dinner with Long Meg and her daughters. 😉 Reputed to be one of the finest stone circles in the north of England (William Wordsworth even wrote about it), the stone circle has a diameter of about 350 feet – the second biggest in the country. Long Meg is the tallest of the 69 stones, about 12 feet high, with three mysterious symbols, its four corners facing the points of the compass and standing some 60 feet outside the circle. The circle is supposedly endowed with magic, so that it is impossible to count the same number of stones twice, but if you do then the magic is broken.

There is a small amount of parking directly by the stone circle (54°43’39.6″N 2°40’00.7″W).