Andle Stone

{{short description|Large boulder on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire, England}}

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The Andle Stone is a large gritstone boulder on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire. The stone block is 6m long, 4m high and lies within a low, circular, dry stone wall enclosure. It is covered in cup and ring marks. It is also known as the Oundle Stone, the Anvil Stone or the Twopenny Loaf.{{cite book|author=Julian Cope|title=The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain : Including a Gazetteer to Over 300 Prehistoric Sites|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbNgQgAACAAJ|accessdate=11 April 2013|year=1998|page=249|publisher=Thorsons Pub|isbn=978-0-7225-3599-8}}{{Cite web |title=MDR3734 - Andle Stone (natural rock), Stanton Moor, Stanton in the Peak |url=https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR3734 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Derbyshire Historic Environment Record}}

There is a memorial inscription on the west-facing concave face of the boulder, commemorating the Duke of Wellington, Lieutenant Colonel William Thornhill (2nd son of Bache Thornhill of Stanton Hall{{Cite web |title=The Waterloo Roll Call with Biographical Notes and Anecdotes, by Charles Dalton |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51143/51143-h/51143-h.htm |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=www.gutenberg.org}}) and the battles of Assaye and Waterloo. The inscription reads:{{Cite web |title=Field Marshal the Duke Of Wellington And Lieutenant Colonel W Thornhill |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/64954 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Imperial War Museums |language=en}}

cellpadding="10" | {{Center|FIELD-MARSHALL}} {{Center|DUKE OF WELLINGTON}} {{Center|DIED 14 SEPT 1852}} {{Center|AGED 82 YEARS}} | | {{Center|LIEUT-COLONEL}} {{Center|WILLIAM THORNHILL}} {{Center|7 HUSSARS}} {{Center|DIED 9 DEC 1851}} {{Center|AGED 71 YEARS}}

colspan="3" |{{Center|ASSYE 1803 WATERLOO 1815}}

File:Memorial Inscription on the Andle Stone on Stanton Moor.jpgThe Andle Stone and the nearby Doll Tor stone circle are both on private farmland with no public access rights.{{cite map|publisher=Ordnance Survey|title=OL24 White Peak area|at=East sheet|url=|scale=1:25000|series=Explorer}}