Mitchell's Fold is a Bronze Age stone circle in southwest Shropshire, located near the small village of White Grit on dry heathland at the southwest end of Stapeley Hill, at a height of 1083 ft (330m) o.d.
It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (number 107448) in the guardianship of English Heritage.
As with most sites of this type, its true history is unknown.
In the beginning there may have been some thirty stone pillars. The survivors that still stand range in height from less than a foot high to just over 6 feet.
They stand in an ellipse 27 metres, NW-SE by 25 metres.
The tallest is at the south-east end of the major axis, standing, perhaps by coincidence or design, close to the line of the southern moonrise.
This pillar and a companion may have flanked an entrance about 6 ft wide.
There is a traditional folk story that a giant had a marvellous cow which gave unlimited amounts of milk.
The giant's cow grazed the area where now stands the circle, until a malicious witch milked the cow using a sieve.
She continued milking until the cow was drained dry, as a result of which it fled to Warwickshire, where it became the Dun cow.
As a punishment, the witch was turned into stone and surrounded by other stones to prevent her escaping.
Local folklore also suggests this is the actual place where King Arthur withdrew Excalibur from one of the stones in the circle, and then became King of the Britains.
(But there does not appear to be any evidence of this.)
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An enchanting place to visit with great walks as well, as long as the weather is dry!
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