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Kirkby Malzeard Parish |
BRIMHAM CRAGS, in the parish of Kirkby Malzeard, lower-division of Claro; 5 miles from Pateley Bridge.
These celebrated Druidical Monuments, which are of various forms and of immense magnitude, arc scattered over forty acres of ground. Two of the rocks are about thirty feet square; many of the stones are in groups, and some in single masses. Here are four large Rocking Stones; one of them rests upon a kind of pedestal, and supposed to be about 100 tons weight. In 1792, the Right Hon. Lord Grantley built a house in the centre of these grounds, for the accommodation of persons whose curiosity might prompt them to visit this world of wonders. --Archaeologia.