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Bredon Hill Standing Stones
The standing stones on Bredon Hill are known as The King and Queen Stones and Bambury Stone. They are surrounded by folklore and are thought to be places of power by modern witches. Although actually three stones, they are thought to have once been joined as two. The practice of passing sick people between the stones in order to heal may also once have been practised here. Legend also has it that the Bambury Stone will go for a drink in the River Avon when it hears the bells of Pershore Abbey strike midnight. The Stones may also have been used as a sort of court, or legal assembly as it was thought that the holding of these sessions at such an ancient site bestowed upon them an authority as ancient as the stones themselves.
