Water Sheddles Cross and Haworth Spa Wells

Woke up to a murky grey Monday but the Bears Fir cone and piece of seaweed said “go Southeast” consulting the To Visit folder brought up Water Sheddles Cross SD 971 383

This seven-foot tall monolith, up until the year 1618 it was known simply as just a ‘standing stone’, when it seems that the words “Hanging Stone or Water Sheddles Cross” were thereafter carved on its west-face

http://megalithix.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/water-sheddles-cross/ 

Looking over the stone to Watersheddles reservoir

just to the right in the above picture there's a spring in the rocks which may explain it's original siting ?

Back to the van and carried on passed Ponden reservoir through Stanbury and turned right onto the Oxenhope road to park at Grove hill dike car park on Penistone hill SE 018 361 Following the track by the wall rather the one onto the moor. Passing a weathering  into the landscape sign above Leeshaw reservoir

Looking forward

 and back to Leeshaw reservoir

 with a telephoto of the Valve tower looking like a fine garden Gazebo

 with Spa Hill Clough on the right

looking up Spa hill Clough

there's no one beating a path to the Spa nowerdays with a quote from the Keighley News of May 1867
 ‘A large assembly met on Spa Sunday on the moors about two miles from Haworth, and a party of musicians from Denholme performed sacred music’. from http://megalithix.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/haworth-moor-spas/ There's not much to see 144 years later

though there were some fossils about

and some frozen puddles still, which made some of the boggier ground easier to pass over, like the Siberian permafrost tundra, it only needed the odd woolly Mammoth sticking out ! but probably Bruno Super-Dawg has passed by ?

It was a keen wind and having passed a really sheltered zero wind spot on the way up I made my way back to it and soon had steam up for a coffee with a glass of Californian Petite Sirah for the Bear. Out of the wind and in sunshine I could almost have nodded off.

there were more fossils on the path on the way back I wonder how many have walked over and not noticed ?

Maybe I see them through collecting them in the past indeed allot of camping expeditions centred around boulder missions, some of my collection in the garden at home

 back to the walk made my way back to the van still in sunshine so the Fir cone was right ! passed this walled in on the way back

 just thought I'd share - cheers all Danny

just to add a post script for Justine who made a comment - here's a Big standing stone and a link

link :- http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/englandrudstone.htm
cheers Danny