The Nine Maidens

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The Nine Maidens is a stone circle in Cornwall. It is one of 16 stone circles the Albion Guide lists in the county. It sits within Cornwall National Landscape National Landscape.

For more of the same, Carfury Standing Stone and West Lanyon Quoit are close by. The nearest railway station is Penzance, 6.1 km to the south-east.

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