Dale, Can you do me a real big favour and stick Pete Brown on your Christmas list and buy him a compass for a present! He obviously doesn't know his North from his South and could badly do with one. Stonking ain't no North South thing it comes from the game of marbles and this is played all over the country. Can be a stake used in the old fashion game of marbles or a heavy shot which breaks and scatters the pack of marbles like a cannon. It gained common usage during the First World War rather poignant as Armistice Day has just passed. It was the term used by the squaddies in the trenches when we laid down the enormous artillery barrages in battles like the Somme. Stonking good shot etc. It then by way of common use got used for very good, excellent, considerable, exciting and extreme. Stonkered was slang used by the Anzacs in the Great War these were the New Zealander's and Australian troops, they used it for utterly defeated or exhausted again origin in stonk from a marble or artillery bombardment. Langsetts are real stonkers by any stretch of the imagination and well worth owning and riding. Hope this expains it. I never heard stonking until I worked in Durham which as everyone knows is in the deep South of England. Take care and best wishes Joe. Croeso Cymru Joe King Nr. Maenaddwyn Ynys Mon Wales