Calderstones Park
Leafy parkland around a historic mansion, sheltering carved Neolithic tomb stones and old glasshouses.
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This guide to Calderstones Park in Liverpool follows six carved sandstone slabs, the last remains of a burial chamber raised here thousands of years before the city existed. It moves through treasure hunters, sand diggers, road builders and a local gardener who remembered what the mound held, and through the people who later tried to rescue the stones. Listen in the covered courtyard behind the Mansion House, where the stones stand today.
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