North Wessex Downs, Stonehenge

Name: North Wessex Downs
Address: Stonehenge, United Kingdom

#10 among attractions in Stonehenge

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. The name North Wessex Downs is not a traditional one, the area covered being better known by various overlapping local names, including the Berkshire Downs, the North Hampshire Downs, the White Horse Hills, the Lambourn Downs, the Marlborough Downs, the Vale of Pewsey and Savernake Forest. ()

Established: 1972 (52 years ago)Coordinates: 51°10'19"N, 1°49'30"W

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North Wessex Downs – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stonehenge Cursus, Bush Barrow, Normanton Down Barrows, Stonehenge Landscape.

1 miN
Archaeological site
Stonehenge Cursus, Stonehenge
26 min walk • The Stonehenge Cursus is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. It is roughly 3 kilometres long and between 100 metres and 150 metres wide.
0.4 miW
Archaeological site
Bush Barrow, Stonehenge
12 min walk • Bush Barrow is a site of the early British Bronze Age, at the western end of the Normanton Down Barrows cemetery. It is among the most important sites of the Stonehenge complex, having produced some of the most spectacular grave goods in Britain.
~1350 ftSW
Archaeological site
Normanton Down Barrows, Stonehenge
7 min walk • Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery located about 0.6 miles south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
0.5 miN
Archaeological site
Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge
13 min walk • The Stonehenge Landscape is a property of The National Trust, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The estate covers 2,100 acres surrounding the neolithic monument of Stonehenge, which is administered by English Heritage.
0.5 miN
Ruins, Mysterious site, Historical place
Stonehenge, Amesbury
14 min walk • Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury plain, Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge
35 min walk • Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in the south western part of central southern England covering 300 square miles. It is part of a system of chalk downlands throughout eastern and southern England formed by the rocks of the Chalk Group and largely lies within the county of Wiltshire, but stretches into Hampshire.
0.9 miNW
Archaeological site
Cursus Barrows, Stonehenge
24 min walk • The Cursus Barrows is the name given to a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery located mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus. The cemetery contains around 18 round barrows scattered along an east-to-west ridge, although some of the mounds are no longer visible.
1.1 miE
Archaeological site
Vespasian's Camp, Stonehenge
29 min walk • Vespasian's Camp is an Iron Age hillfort just west of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. The hillfort is less than 3 kilometres from the Neolithic and Bronze Age site of Stonehenge, and was built on a hill next to the Stonehenge Avenue; it has the River Avon on its southern side and the A303 road on its northern edge.
0.5 miN
Observatories and planetariums
Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge, Stonehenge
13 min walk • The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge has long been studied for its possible connections with ancient astronomy. The site is aligned in the direction of the sunrise of the summer solstice and the sunset of the winter solstice.
1.2 miE
Archaeological site
Bluestonehenge, Stonehenge
30 min walk • Bluestonehenge or Bluehenge is a prehistoric henge and stone circle monument that was discovered by the Stonehenge Riverside Project about 1 mile south-east of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
0.7 miE
Archaeological site
Coneybury Henge, Stonehenge
18 min walk • Coneybury Henge is a henge which is part of the Stonehenge Landscape in Wiltshire, England. The henge, which has been almost completely flattened, was only discovered in the 20th century.

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Nearby attractions include Normanton Down Barrows, Stonehenge (7 min walk), Bush Barrow, Stonehenge (12 min walk), Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge, Stonehenge (13 min walk), Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge (13 min walk).