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Grey Yauds, Cumwhitton
Grey Yauds
Cumwhitton Stone Circle
civil parish:-   Cumwhitton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stone circle (gone) 
coordinates:-   NY545487
1Km square:-   NY5448
10Km square:-   NY54

hearsay:-  
It was vandalised after the Enclosure Act 1770, stones being taken for the foundations of new stone walls. One stone was left.
It was described as having 88 stones in a circle 47.5m diameter.

Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex):: ISBN 0 85033 566 3
Thom, A: 1967: Megalithic Sites in Britain: Oxford University Press (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Ferguson, R S: 1883:: TWCAAS: vol.6: pp.183
Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States)

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