Merry Maidens, Cornwall
Historical Description
Merry Maidens, a Druidical circle in St Buryan parish, Cornwall, 4½ miles SW of Penzance. It once had nineteen stones; it still has sixteen in upright position; and it has twelve of these in the form of a ring 82 feet in diameter.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Merry Maidens are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)