Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio Surrey,12 Jun 2026,10 mins

The stone circle built by hand

Secret Surrey

Available for over a year

In the 1990s, Eleanor Anstruther opened her land on Hascombe Hill to a growing community of people seeking an alternative way of life. They gathered for pagan ceremonies and built a stone circle by hand. Life on the hill was idyllic – but as the community expanded, so did tensions, ending in accusations of witchcraft, fractured loyalties and the loneliness of a site slowly reclaimed by nature. Contains brief mentions of drug use in a historical context. Image courtesy of craigdenfordphotography.co.uk

Programme Website
More episodes