Bridestones and Dovedale Griff
Sandstone rock stacks, heather moor and an ancient oak wood in a National Trust reserve.
Weathered sandstone stacks on a heather ridge inside Dalby Forest.

The Bridestones are a scatter of strangely shaped rocks left when softer stone eroded from around harder Jurassic sandstone, and the biggest look like giant mushrooms. They stand on a National Trust nature reserve reached from the Bridestones car park by Staindale Lake on the Dalby Forest drive, with a 1.5-mile circuit that includes a steep, rocky climb, then heather moor and old oak woodland.
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