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Prehistoric monument
Stonehenge
Circle of sarsen and bluestones built in phases from about 3100 BC, aligned on the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset.
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Stonehenge and Amesbury: things to do
Places worth your time in Stonehenge and Amesbury
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Things to do in Stonehenge and Amesbury
Bezienswaardigheden, musea, parken en uitzichtpunten in en rond het gebied.
Museum
Stonehenge Visitor Centre
English Heritage exhibition on the builders of Stonehenge, with reconstructed Neolithic houses and a café; tickets cover the stones too.
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Aarden wal
Stonehenge Avenue
Bank-and-ditch avenue nearly 3 km long linking the stones with the River Avon, partly aligned on the midsummer sunrise.
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Stonehenge Cursus
Neolithic enclosure about 3 km long, dug between 3630 and 3375 BC, centuries before the first phase of Stonehenge.
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Barrow cemetery
King Barrow Ridge
Bronze Age burial mounds among old beech trees east of the stones, with a view across to the circle.
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Barrow cemetery
Winterbourne Stoke Barrow Cemetery
Group of 17 burial mounds west of Stonehenge that includes every style of barrow found in southern England.
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Barrow cemetery
Normanton Down Barrows
Neolithic and Bronze Age cemetery of 40 or more barrows about 1 km south of Stonehenge, including the gold-rich Bush Barrow.
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Woodhenge
Henge of about 2500 BC whose six oval rings of timber posts are marked by concrete posts; free parking beside the site.
Prehistoric monument
Durrington Walls
Neolithic henge about 500 m across, thought to mark the village of the people who built Stonehenge.
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Standing stone
Cuckoo Stone
Fallen sarsen, the same stone as Stonehenge's largest, in a field about 500 m west of Woodhenge.
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Church of St Mary and St Melor
Grade I listed parish church by the River Avon, dating from the 12th century and possibly linked to Amesbury's medieval abbey.
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Museum
Amesbury History Centre
Local history centre on Church Street with exhibitions, talks and family workshops about a town people have visited for 10,000 years.
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Hill figure
Bulford Kiwi
Chalk kiwi on Beacon Hill above Bulford, cut in 1919 by New Zealand soldiers waiting to sail home after the First World War.
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- Stonehenge and Amesbury (area photo): Julie Anne Workman, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stonehenge: Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stonehenge Visitor Centre: M J Roscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Stonehenge Avenue: Ashley Columbus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stonehenge Cursus: Psychostevouk (talk), Public domain, source
- Normanton Down Barrows: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Woodhenge: Neil Owen, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Durrington Walls: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cuckoo Stone: Roy Hastings, CC BY 3.0, source
- Church of St Mary and St Melor: Matthew Black, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Amesbury History Centre: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bulford Kiwi: Jonathanjosh1, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Avebury and Marlborough: Bo&Ko, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Salisbury and Old Sarum: Andrew Dunn (Website: http://www.andrewdunnphoto.com/), CC BY-SA 2.0, source
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