Nine Ladies

Nine Ladies
Type:	Stone Circle
Country:	England
County:	Derbyshire
Grid Ref:	SK247634
Latitude:	53.166855
Longitude:	-1.630487
Accuracy:	to 70m (NGR derived)
Datum:	OSGB36
OS Map:	OS Outdoor Leisure sheet 24, The Peak District (White Peak area)
Date:	July 1996
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View in Google Earth:	KML file

nearby sites
Stanton Moor III	Stone Circle, 0.1km, SK248633
Stanton Moor I	Stone Circle, 0.4km, SK249637
Stanton Moor IV	Stone Circle, 0.5km, SK247629
Doll Tor	Stone Circle, 1.1km, SK238628
Nine Stones Close	Stone Circle, 2.4km, SK225625
Park Gate	Stone Circle, 6.1km, SK281685
Gibbet Moor	Stone Circle, 7.7km, SK281703
Gibbet Moor N	Stone Circle, 8.2km, SK282708
Arbor Low	Stone Circle, 8.7km
Barbrook I	Stone Circle, 12.6km, SK279756
Barbrook II	Stone Circle, 12.8km, SK277758
Stoke Flat	Stone Circle, 13.4km
Barbrook III	Stone Circle, 14.3km, SK283772
Five Wells	Dolmen, 14.5km, SK124711
Eyam Moor III	Stone Circle, 15.5km, SK232788

Attractively set in a clearing in the woods on Stanton Moor in the Peak National Park, with an outlier (the King Stone) 40m to the WSW.

Attractively set, that is, until Stancliffe Stone/Marshalls get to dig a dirty great hole next to the site, for the sake of quarrying stone.

Why are they quarrying near an Ancient Monument, and quarrying in a National Park, you might well ask. Although the circle became a Scheduled Ancient Monument in 1882, the quarry companies are using leases granted before the area became part of the National Park in the 1950s. To get the National Parks created, it seems these leases were granted to previous interests for a long time, hence all the trouble here.