Satan’s Stone, St Laurence’s Church, Rushton Spencer

At St Laurence’s Church in Rushton Spencer, legend claims the monks who built it around 1200 chose a pagan site once marked by a sacred stone. When they began laying the church’s foundations, Satan tried to sabotage the work, carrying the stones down into the marsh. Eventually defeated, he dropped his final stone in a nearby field, where his resting place became known as the Devil’s Stone. Grooves upon it are said to mark his apron strings, scorched into the rock as he fled.