Standing room only!!

A lovely Summer's evening visit to The Druid's Arms at Stanton Drew for drinks with a friend. In the pub garden the sun was shining, the church bells were ringing and the ancient stones were standing!!

"There are three stone circles at Stanton Drew. The Great Circle, at 113 metres (370 feet) in diameter, is one of the largest in the country: it has 26 surviving stones, although there may once have been up to 30...

In the garden of the pub is a group of three large stones called The Cove, and to the north, across the River Chew, is the site of a standing stone known as Hautville’s Quoit. Their closeness to each other, and the alignments between some of them, indicate that together these stones formed a single complex.

Stone circles like these are known to date to the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (around 3000–2000 BC). Such circles are believed to have played an important part in social and religious life, and there is evidence that some were aligned with major events of the solar and lunar calendar." www.thedruidarms.co.uk