Copgrove is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, five miles (8 km) south-west of Boroughbridge and the A1(M) motorway.
The village is close to Rober Beck, which has been influenced by glaciers and overflowing channels.
The surface is hilly with a single stream running through it, a tributary of the Ure, which separates Copgrove from the parish of Burton-Leonard.
[2] The original Old English definition of Copgrove is split up into the 'Cop' and the 'grove' part 'cop meant personal name and the 'grove' part literally means grove, suggesting that the area is a landscapes consisting of woods and many small groups of trees.
[6] The Domesday Book describes Copgrove as having a total population of "7 households" and "7 villagers".
The stone has a rubbing on it of a figure that has been identified as the figure of Sheela-na-gig; the Celtic Goddess of Creation and Destruction and the female is seen to be holding her vagina open with her left hand, while holding an object in her right hand.
It has been claimed that this figure carving in the stone is Whilst it has been viewed that the head is about to replaced back into the womg form which it was first created.