Great Stone of Fourstones

#1379 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Rock, Nature, Natural attraction

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The Great Stone of Fourstones, or the "Big Stone" as it is known locally, is a glacial deposit on the moorlands of Tatham Fells, England, straddling the county border between North Yorkshire and Lancashire, near Bentham in the District of Craven. ()

Coordinates: 54°5'29"N, 2°30'23"W

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Great Stone of Fourstones – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: White Scar Cave, Ingleborough Cave, Ingleton Pottery, Wray Chapel.

5.8 miNE
Natural attraction, Cave, Park
White Scar Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
147 min walk • White Scar Caves is a show cave in the civil parish of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England, under Ingleborough in the Chapel-le-Dale valley of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is a solutional resurgence cave formed in Carboniferous limestone, some 6 kilometres long.
6 miNE
Natural attraction, Cave, Park
Ingleborough Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
154 min walk • Ingleborough Cave is a show cave close to the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England adjacent to where the water from Gaping Gill resurges. That part of the cave which is open to the public follows a fossil gallery for some 500 metres. The passage is spacious, and well decorated with stalagmitic formations.
4.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Shopping
Ingleton Pottery, Yorkshire Dales National Park
118 min walk • Ingleton Waterfalls Trail is a well-known circular trail beginning and ending in the village of Ingleton in the English county of North Yorkshire, now maintained by the Ingleton Scenery Company.
4.2 miW
Church
Wray Chapel
107 min walk • Holy Trinity Church is in the village of Wray, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.
4.6 miN
Gothic Revival architecture, Church, Gothic architecture
St Oswald's Church, Yorkshire Dales National Park
119 min walk • St Oswald's Church is in the village of Thornton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ewecross, the archdeaconry of Craven and the Diocese of Leeds.
6.1 miNW
Church
St John the Baptist's Church
155 min walk • St John the Baptist's Church, is in the village of Arkholme, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.
5.9 miW
Bridge
Loyn Bridge
150 min walk • Loyn Bridge crosses the River Lune, carrying a minor road between the villages of Hornby and Gressingham in Lancashire, England.
5.4 miW
Church
St Margaret's Church
139 min walk • St Margaret's Church is in Main Street, Hornby, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the deanery of Tunstall.
5.7 miSW
Hill
Wolfhole Crag, Forest of Bowland
146 min walk • Wolfhole Crag is a lonely and seldom-visited hill in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England. Its seclusion is due in part to its low profile and long approach walks. A long path approaches from Ward's Stone in the west which is fraught with bogs. Another tarmac path from Tarnbrook meets this half way.
5.4 miNW
Church
St Wilfrids
137 min walk • St Wilfrid's Church is in Main Street, Melling, Lancashire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is an active Anglican church in the united benefice of East Lonsdale, the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.
1.6 miN
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Margaret's Church, Bentham
41 min walk • St Margaret's Church is in Station Road, High Bentham, North Yorkshire, England. It is an Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ewecross, the archdeaconry of Craven, and the Diocese of Leeds. Its benefice is united with that of St John the Baptist, Low Bentham.