British Folklore

Folklore from the British Isles

Northern England

• Cumberland

  • Sunkenkirk Circle

  • Long Meg and her Daughters

  • Helvellyn & Blencathra

  • Edenhall

  • Mayburgh Henge

  • Castlerigg

• Durham

  • Sockburn

• Northumberland

  • Hen Hole

  • Hurl Stone

• Westmorland

  • King Arthur’s Table

  • Nine Standards

  • Underlaid Wood

• Yorkshire

  • The Devil’s Arrows

  • Obtrusch Roque

  • Stony Raise Cairn

  • Willy Howe

South west

• Cornwall

  • St. Nun’s Well

  • Rillaton Barrow

  • The Hurlers

  • The Gump (Woon Gumpus Common)

  • Castle-an-Dinas

  • Carne Beacon

  • Carn Kenidzhek

  • King Arthur’s Tomb

  • Boleigh Fogou

  • Ballowal Barrow

  • Tintagel

• Devon

  • Stall Moor Circle & Stone Row

  • Spinster’s Rock

  • Crockern Tor

  • Challacombe

  • Wistman’s Wood

  • Okehampton Castle

  • Scorhill Stone Circle

• Somerset

  • Cow Castle

  • Glastonbury Tor

  • Robin Hood’s Butts

  • Ruborough Camp

• Dorset

  • Badbury Rings

  • Bottlebrush Down

  • Knowlton

  • Lulworth

  • Melcombe Horsey

South

• Berkshire

  • Uffington White Horse

  • Wayland’s Smithy

  • Beedon Barrow

  • Bisham Abbey

  • Blewbury

  • Bucklebury

  • Caversham

  • Compton

  • Cumnor Place

  • Dragon Hill

  • Grim’s Ditch (or Bank)

  • Hampstead Marshall

  • Hawthorn Hill

  • Hungerford

  • Inkpen

  • Kennet Valley

  • Kingston Lisle

  • Kintbury

  • Little Wittenham

  • Newbury

  • Shottesbrooke

  • South Moreton

  • Windsor

  • Windsor Castle

  • Windsor Great Park

• Hampshire

  • Michael Morrey’s Hump

Midlands

• Derbyshire

  • Nine Ladies

  • Arbor Low

• Herefordshire

  • Arthur’s Stone

  • Shobdon

  • Herla and the Fairy King

• Leicestershire

  • Black Annis Bower

  • Humberstone

• Shropshire

  • Bomere Pool

  • Llanymynech

  • Corndon Hill

• Staffordshire

  • Cauldon Low

West

• Oxfordshire

  • Rollright Stones

• Wiltshire

  • Avebury

  • Stonehenge

  • West Kennet Long Barrow

  • Adam’s Grave

  • Cley Hill

  • Fyfield Down

  • Kit’s Grave

• Gloucestershire

  • Adlestrop

  • Torbarrow Hill

  • Dursley Fairy Inn

  • Belas Knap Long Barrow

Scotland

• Argyllshire

  • Beinn Iadain

  • Deil’s Cauldron

  • Giants Graves

  • Torrylin Cairn

  • Dun Ghallain

  • Kilmichael Glassary

• Central & Perthshire

  • Beinn a’ Ghlò

  • Castle Law

  • Killin Fairy Knowe

  • Maiden Castle

  • Murthly Castle Standing Stone

• Dumfries & Galloway

  • Bail Hill

  • Caerlaverlock

  • Burrow Head Forts

• Glasgow & Ayrshire

  • Kempock Stone

• Lothian & Borders

  • Minch Moor

  • Mutiny Stones

• North East

  • Aquhorthies

  • Cairnshee

  • Chapel o’Sink

  • Martin’s Stone

• Northern Highlands

  • Bruan Broch

  • Hill of Durcha

  • Achadh a’Bheannaich

  • Hill o’ Many Stanes

• Orkney & Shetland Islands

  • Haltadans

  • Maes Howe

  • Stenness

  • Dwarfie Stane

  • Stone of Quoybune

• Southern Highlands

  • Clava Cairns

  • Dundreggan

  • Grenish Stone Circle

• Western Isles

  • Callanish Standing Stones

East Anglia

• Bedfordshire

  • Apsley Guise

  • Battlesden

  • Bletsoe Church

  • Dick Turpin

  • Caesar’s Camp

  • Cardington

  • Chalgrave

  • Chicksands Priory

  • Dunstable

  • Five Knolls, Dunstable Downs

  • Houghton Regis

  • Kensworth

  • Knocking Knoll

  • Leighton Buzzard

  • Maiden Bower

  • Marston Moretaine

  • Millbrook

  • Oakley

  • Odell

  • Silsoe

  • Studham Common

  • Toddington

  • Wilden

  • Woburn Abbey

• Norfolk

  • Boadicea’s Grave

• Essex

  • Barrow Hill, Mersea

South east

• Buckinghamshire

  • Amersham

  • Aston Clinton

  • Bishopstone

  • Bledlow

  • Boarstall Tower

  • Bulstrode

  • Calverton

  • Chetwode

  • Creslow Manor

  • Cymbeline’s Castle, Great Kimble

  • Eton

  • Eythrope

  • Gibraltar

  • Grendon Underwood

  • Grim’s Ditch

  • Hedgerley

  • Kingswood

  • Ludgershall

  • Middle Clayton

  • Naphill

  • North Marston

  • Stone

  • West Drayton

  • Woughton-on-the-Green

• Sussex

  • Canctonbury Ring

  • The Trundle

• Kent

  • Kit’s Cody House

Wales

• Clwyd

  • Castell Dinas Bran

• Glamorgan

  • Tinkinswood

  • Mynydd Aberdare

  • St. Lythans

• Gwynedd

  • Carreg Leidr

  • Bedd Bronwen

  • Hendrefor

  • Maen Llwyd

  • Ystumcegid

  • Moel Eilio

• Powys

• Dyfed

  • Careg Hir

  • Bedd Taliesin

  • Carreg y Bwci

  • Llyny Fan Fach

  • Frenni Fawr

  • Pentre Ifan