Little Meg
Little Meg is a small circle of large kerb stones which probably surrounded a Bronze Age kerb cairn. It is close to the village of Langwathby to the north-east of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria and is 650 metres north-east of the more famous stone circle of Long Meg and Her Daughters.Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Little Salkeld, Hunsonby, England, UK
- Also known as: “Maughan Stone Circle” and “Maughanby Circle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Long Meg and Her Daughters and Long Meg Mine.
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that emerged during Neolithic, and continued into the Early Bronze Age. Long Meg and Her Daughters is situated 2,100 feet southwest of Little Meg.
Long Meg Mine
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Long Meg Mine is a disused gypsum mine just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria in the area known as Cave Wood Valley. It was operated between 1880 and 1976. Long Meg Mine is situated 1 mile west of Little Meg.
Lacy’s Caves
Cave
Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lacy's Caves are a series of five chambers in the red sandstone cliff of the River Eden, just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria, England, near Nunnery, Cumbria, at grid reference NY564383. Lacy’s Caves is situated 1 mile northwest of Little Meg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glassonby and Little Salkeld.
Glassonby
Village
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glassonby is a small village and civil parish in the Eden Valley, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It lies about 3 miles south south east of Kirkoswald.
Little Salkeld
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Salkeld is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hunsonby, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, a few miles to the north east of Penrith. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 91.
Eden Valley
Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eden Valley runs northward through the county of Cumbria from its source high on the fells at Mallerstang and enters the sea 91 miles later at Carlisle.
Little Meg
- Categories: bowl barrow, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Glassonby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.73051° or 54° 43′ 50″ northLongitude
-2.6585° or 2° 39′ 31″ westOpen location code
9C6VP8JR+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 370277720OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q11689326
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In Other Languages
“Little Meg” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Little Meg”
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Highlights include Newrough Wood and Claydubs Plantation.
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