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Places worth your time in Avebury and Marlborough
Lugares imprescindibles
Monumentos, museos, parques y miradores en la zona y sus alrededores.
Neolithic bank, ditch and the largest stone circle in Britain, built between about 2850 and 2200 BC around part of the village.
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Museum of finds from the Avebury monuments; English Heritage suggests starting here to learn about the sites around the village.
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Grade I listed early 16th-century manor house next to the church, run by the National Trust, with a formal garden.
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Village church beside Avebury Manor, just west of the henge bank.
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Avenue of paired standing stones, originally about 100 pairs, running 1.5 miles from Avebury towards The Sanctuary.
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Site of rings of timber posts and stones begun about 2500 BC on Overton Hill, now marked by concrete blocks and posts.
Artificial chalk mound 39 m high, probably finished around 2400 BC; seen from a viewing area, with no access to the hill.
Chambered tomb built around 3650 BC where nearly 50 people were buried; half a mile uphill from a lay-by on the A4.
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Neolithic causewayed enclosure with three rings of interrupted ditches, a 1.5-mile walk uphill from Avebury.
Downland nature reserve on the Marlborough Downs scattered with sarsen boulders known as the Grey Wethers.
Chalk horse 27 m wide below the Ridgeway on Hackpen Hill, said to have been cut in 1838 for Queen Victoria's coronation.
Late 18th-century chalk horse on Cherhill Down below Oldbury Castle, near the Lansdowne Monument obelisk; viewed from a lay-by on the A4.
Silk mercer's house on the High Street, rebuilt after Marlborough's Great Fire of 1653, with painted walls and a shop.
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Grade I listed parish church at the east end of the High Street, founded in the 12th century and partly rebuilt after the 1653 fire.
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Small chalk horse on Granham Hill, cut in 1804 by pupils of a High Street school.
Private forest of about 4,500 acres south-east of Marlborough, with timber managed by Forestry England; bluebells in late spring.
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Salisbury & Stonehenge
The cathedral and Magna Carta, the Close, the Market Place and the hillfort of Old Sarum
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The stones, Woodhenge, Durrington Walls and the barrows of the Stonehenge landscape
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