Talk:The Hitching Stone
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The name.
[edit]I and a friend discussed the name of the hitching stone. One obvious reason for the name is from the old English hitching, to be hitched. A place for marriages. Thoughts? 51.9.248.187 (talk) 19:42, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- I agree - hitching means to be married.
- A local antiquarian told me that it was a religious place and that a pagan priest would sit in the hole which would have been covered by cloth. There is a another hole from the main hole which you can see is the result of a fossil tree eroding, and the priest would have been spoken with through this, as though speaking for the stone/earth, giving counsel or marrying people. I don't know where my friend learned this, but it was in 1984 he told me.
- Another myth I hear was that a giant threw the boulder there. ~2025-33497-07 (talk) 06:25, 14 November 2025 (UTC)