A mini guide to
Places worth your time in Avebury and Marlborough
Top places
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
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.
Avenue of paired standing stones, originally about 100 pairs, running 1.5 miles from Avebury towards The Sanctuary.
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.
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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