Shooting Butts and Churn Milk Joan on Midgley Moor

Also known as Churn Milk Peg and Savile’s Low, this stone is located on Midgley Moor. It is a 6′ 9″ high stone pillar – probably originally placed as a boundary marker. The stone is claimed to spin round three times on New Year’s Eve. It is said to be named after a milk-maid who died whilst carrying milk to the villages nearby. There is a legend that a penny placed on the stone will bring good luck, no doubt to the person that finds it!