page_title: The Hitching Stone
hierarchical_section_title: The Hitching Stone
caption_attribution_description: English: The Hitching Stone, near to Cowling, North Yorkshire, Great Britain.
context_page_description: The Hitching Stone is a gritstone erratic block on Keighley Moor, North Yorkshire, near Earl Crag and the village of Cowling. It is very close to the border between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire and the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire.
  It is said to be the largest boulder in Yorkshire at 29 feet long, 25 feet wide and 21 feet high. It is also said to weigh a lot more than 1000 tonnes.
context_section_description: The Hitching Stone is a gritstone erratic block on Keighley Moor, North Yorkshire, near Earl Crag and the village of Cowling.  It is very close to the border between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire and the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire. 
  It is said to be the largest boulder in Yorkshire at 29 feet long, 25 feet wide and 21 feet high.  It is also said to weigh a lot more than 1000 tonnes.
caption: The Hitching Stone, showing the fissure and rectangular hole known as the druid’s chair
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