The Blaxhall Stone is 1.52 m across and 0.6 m high and stands in the yard of Stone Farm, between the outhouses and the orchard. The legend is that it was ploughed up from a nearby field called Wrong Land by the farm's foreman at the end of the 19th century. When he found it and dropped it in the yard, it was only the size of two fists.
It is now said to weigh about five tons. George Ewart Evans reported in Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay (1956) that a cat was once unable to pass beneath the lip of the stone, whereas now a dog could go under with ease. A growing stone is a known folklore type; another is recorded at Magdalen Laver in Essex.
The stone is on private farmland. A natural glacial boulder with a story built around it, listed here as a folklore tradition with a literary source.
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