These comprise of a perfect stone circle known as The Kings Men which at this time as about 77 stones made of oolitic limestone, a prominant outer stone which is across the road and in a different county from the other stones (in Warickshire) known as The King Stone and megalithic tomb known as The Whispering Knights. which consists of 5 smaller stones which lean in towards each other.

One of the folklores about the stones are that they were once real people and there is a small rhyme which tells what happens when a king was marching over the hill when they met a witch.

Witch
Seven long strides shalt thou take
If Long Compton thou canst see
King of England thou shalt be

King
Stick, stock, stone
As King of England I shall be known

But after he took seven strides The Arch-druids Barrow a mound at the top of the hill blocked his view of Long Compton.

Witch
As Long Compton thou canst not see
King of England thou shalt not be
Rise up stick and stand still stone
For King of England thou shalt be none
Thou and thy men hoar stones shall be
And myself an Eldern tree

The king as his men where then turned into stone where they still stand today. Sometimes the spell can be broken when at midnight they will come back to life life and will dance around in a circle.

Others are that it used to be where people gathered on Midsummers Eve. The Elder tree (the witch) was cut and the sap (her blood) would drip on the The Kings Stone and it would cause it to move. It is thought to bring bad luck to anyone who tries to move or causes damage to the stones. (please do not do this as you would be vandalising an historic monument).