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The Bowstones, situated beside the old Disley&ndash;Macclesfield ridgeway, overlooking Lyme Park, the Cheshire Plain, the City of Manchester and the Peak District, were known as Robin Hood's Stones, Bow Stones and Picking Stones in 1810.
The Bowstones, situated beside the old Disley&ndash;Macclesfield ridgeway, overlooking Lyme Park, the Cheshire Plain, the City of Manchester and the Peak District, were known as Robin Hood's Stones, Bow Stones and Picking Stones in 1810.

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Bowstones a.k.a. Robin Hood's Bow Stones, Lyme Handley

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robin Hood's Bow Stones, Lyme Handley / John Darch, 20 Aug. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-05.

The Bowstones, situated beside the old Disley–Macclesfield ridgeway, overlooking Lyme Park, the Cheshire Plain, the City of Manchester and the Peak District, were known as Robin Hood's Stones, Bow Stones and Picking Stones in 1810.

William Marriott noted these folk names (see Allusions below) in the course of an extensive discussion of these and other stones he believed to be related. He generally used their more common name 'Bow Stones' (now usually spelt 'Bowstones'). The stones originally formed the shafts of an Anglian cross, the western being 1.22 metres high, tapering from a diameter of c. 40 cm at the base to c. 27 cm at the top, the eastern being 98 cm high and c. 40 cm in diameter. The stones have interlaced carvings in a style indicating a date no later than the 10th century. It has been suggested that they were moved to their present location and fitted into a stone base by Sir Piers Legh of Lyme Hall in the 16th century. Two cross heads on display at the hall may originally have surmounted the shafts. The stones are a scheduled monument. Thanks in part to their location on a prominent ridgeline on the edge of the Peak District National Park with extensive views the site is well-visited.[1]

Current local tradition ascribes the stones' name to their having been used by Robin Hood and his men to string their bows.[2] A similar tradition is connected with Robin Hood's Picking Rods at Ludworth Intake near Chisworth. Despite the apparently still current traditions, there is no evidence that folk names connecting the Bowstones with Robin Hood are still in local use.

For the alleged connection between this monument and others in the High Peak, see High Peak place-name cluster. Template:PnItemQry

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[Daniel & Samuel Lysons 1810:] Ancient Crosses. — Two very ancient stone-pillars, called the Bow-stones, or Park-moor-stones, fixed in a large stone, six feet four inches in length, and four feet in width, in form approaching to an oval, stand just without the eastern boundary of Lyme-park, near an ancient road, leading from Disley to Macclesfield: one of them is three feet two inches in height, and four feet three inches in girth at the base; the other four feet in height, and four feet in girth, at the base; the socket of each is eleven inches deep: they are round, and taper gradually from their bases: each of these pillars has a kind of rude capital, like those of the pillar near Valle-Crucis abbey in Denbighfhire.[3]

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