The best-known megaliths in England
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
Stonehenge, 12 km from Salisbury, is on the list, and so is Avebury Stone Circle near Calne, but the density is in the far west. Within 9 km of Penzance stand The Merry Maidens Stone Circle, Mên-an-Tol and Lanyon Quoit. Nine Ladies Stone Circle is 17 km from Chesterfield. In Cumbria, Castlerigg Stone Circle and Long Meg and her Daughters are both reached from Penrith; Kit's Coty House is 6 km from Maidstone.
RLQuest knows 237 named stone circles, standing stones, quoits and long barrows in England, 70 of them with a Wikipedia article. One, the Soulton Long Barrow near Shrewsbury, was built in 2017. Most are in open country; a quest that ends at a stone is confirmed from your route, and the moorland fills in on your map.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 185 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
