Hidden Britain AtlasOpen the map
All places › Hill figures & giants
Hill figure

The Giant of Grabbist

Grabbist Hill, Dunster, Somerset

A gentle giant who helped Exmoor's fishermen.

Somerset folklore tells of the friendly Giant of Grabbist, who waded into the Bristol Channel to rescue fishing boats in storms and fought the Devil in a stone-throwing contest. Boulders on the hills nearby are said to be the stones they threw.

Read the full story, see it on the map, get directions and find what else is nearby in the free Hidden Britain Atlas map.

Open The Giant of Grabbist on the mapReport a sighting here
When
Legend
Where
51.1800, -3.4650
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Footpaths climb Grabbist Hill from Dunster.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

Buy on AmazonAll books by Cale Mills

Nearby mysteries