Enjoying a well deserved break from pushing this stone along the watershed on the Howden Moors in the Yorkshire Peak District.
Walkers ('hikers' to those who don't or only do it on Sunday) of the Derwent Watershed will recognise this unnamed stone, located a few hundred yards North-West of the Shepherds' Meeting Stones. Although the track leads to it, it isn't on the watershed. Except in very dry weather, it is protected by a pool just wide enough to prevent access to the dry - or red - of sock. A few yards to the East are three rock shelves on which a congregation of aboriginal kings might well have sat while ancient priests of the local tribes performed their bloody rituals on this rock altar: Situated at the very South of the County, its top slopes to the North and the view presented to its face encompasses all of God's Own Broad Acres.
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