Long Meg and Her Daughters
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Neolithic stone circle near Penrith, England
- Also known as: “Long Meg and Her Daughters stone circle, associated cursus and prehistoric enclosure”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Little Meg and Long Meg Mine.
Little Meg
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Little Meg is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Long Meg and Her Daughters.
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 3,200 feet northwest of Long Meg and Her Daughters.
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 4,200 feet northwest of Long Meg and Her Daughters.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Salkeld and Glassonby.
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.
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.
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.
Long Meg and Her Daughters
- Categories: stone circle, 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
54.72806° or 54° 43′ 41″ northLongitude
-2.66743° or 2° 40′ 3″ westOpen location code
9C6VP8HM+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 8594585402OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q1869414
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In Other Languages
From French to Welsh—“Long Meg and Her Daughters” goes by many names.
- French: “Long Meg and Her Daughters”
- German: “Long Meg and her Daughters”
- Japanese: “ロング・メグ・アンド・ハー・ドーターズ”
- Russian: “Длинная Мег и её дочери”
- Russian: “Длинная Мег”
- Russian: “Круг Моганби”
- Spanish: “Circulo de Maughanby”
- Spanish: “Círculo de Maughanby”
- Spanish: “Long meg and her daughters”
- Spanish: “Long Meg and Her Daughters”
- Spanish: “Long Meg y sus hijas”
- Spanish: “Maughanby Circle”
- Ukrainian: “Довга Мег та її дочки”
- Welsh: “Long Meg”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Long Meg and Longbank Wood.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Longmeg Farm and Maughanby Farm.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Long Meg and Her Daughters”. Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.