Walk: Salford and the Rollright Stones
PUBLISHED: 12:14 14 July 2020 | UPDATED: 12:14 14 July 2020
The Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire (pathranger.com)
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Take in some of the Cotswolds’ beautiful ancient monuments with this walk
Start: Salford OX7 5YW
Distance: 5.5 miles (8.8km)
Time: Approx. 3 hours
Parking: Roadside
Recommended direction is anticlockwise.
The Rollright Stones are a collection of Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments close to the Oxfordshire village of Long Compton. Whispering Knights, a single chamber tomb or dolman, was the first to be built during the mid-Neolithic period. The second is The King’s Men, a stone circle built around the beginning of the Bronze Age following the design of other stones circles in England. The King Stone, a single monolith, is the most recent although its date of construction is unknown it is believed to be a grave marker.
This route begins in the village of Salford walking out across open countryside and farm fields to visit all three monuments. The site of the monuments is a short detour off the main path (marked on the map with a star).
Download the Cotswold Walks app and let your mobile guide you around the route. It shows your location on the map as you walk and even works without a phone signal.
To download the app, search ‘Cotswold Walks’ on the iPhone or Google Play AppStore. For more information visit pathranger.com/cotswold-walks
