{"id":41309,"date":"2020-05-28T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=41309"},"modified":"2020-05-28T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:11:11","slug":"thurstaton-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/thurstaton-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurstaton Common"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quick flight over Thor\u2019s Rock (Thor\u2019s Stone) in Thurstaton Common, Wirral today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quick Mavic Mini Video - Thor\u2019s Rock\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CPBnhluUKIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Thor&#8217;s Rock &#8211; Thurstaton Common, Wirral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was out with the family so not loads of time to get lots of footage in; but this is a great place for flighting your Drone with views across the river into Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/click.dji.com\/AKHm77xYham30sz_1aAOsg?pm=ad_image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u.djicdn.com\/uploads\/ad_image_file\/file\/1203\/728_90.jpg\"\/><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>Thurstaston Hill is the location of Thor&#8217;s Stone, a large sandstone outcrop and a place of romantic legend. In the 19th century it was supposed that early Viking settlers may have held religious ceremonies here. A visit to the site by members of the British Archaeological Association in 1888 heard an account by Rev. A. E. P. Gray, rector of Wallasey, that the &#8216;Thor Stone&#8217; was also known in the locality as &#8216;Fair Maiden&#8217;s Hall&#8217; and that children were &#8220;in the habit of coming once a year to dance around the stone&#8221;. This part of Wirral was certainly part of a Norse colony centred on Thingwall in the 10th and 11th centuries. However, geologists and historians now think that the rock is a natural formation similar to a tor, arising from periglacial weathering of the sandstone, which was later exploited by quarrymen in the 18th and 19th centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick flight over Thor\u2019s Rock (Thor\u2019s Stone) in Thurstaton Common, Wirral today. I was out with the family so not loads of time to get lots of footage in; but this is a great place for flighting your Drone with views across the river into Wales. Thurstaston Hill is the location of Thor&#8217;s Stone, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/thurstaton-common\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thurstaton Common<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[129,130,139,267,394,426,427,428,430,485],"class_list":["post-41309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-dji","tag-dji-mavic-mini","tag-drone-video","tag-mavic-mini","tag-smlp","tag-thor","tag-thors-rock","tag-thors-stone","tag-thurstaton","tag-wirral"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}