Stonehenge, Avebury

Name: Stonehenge
Address: Avebury, United Kingdom

#8 among attractions in Avebury

Unesco, Archaeological site

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Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Wiltshire, England. The WHS covers two large areas of land separated by about 15 miles, rather than a specific monument or building. The sites were inscribed as co-listings in 1986. Some of the large and well known monuments within the WHS are listed below, but the area also has an exceptionally high density of small-scale archaeological sites, particularly from the prehistoric period. More than 700 individual archaeological features have been identified. There are 160 separate Scheduled Monuments, covering 415 items or features. ()

Alternative names: Unesco: from 1986Coordinates: 51°25'48"N, 1°51'0"W

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Avebury United Kingdom

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Stonehenge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Silbury Hill, Kennet Avenue, Avebury Manor, Windmill Hill.

1 miS
Manmade mound from prehistoric times
Silbury Hill, Avebury
27 min walk • Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.
0.5 miS
Avenue of prehistoric standing stones
Kennet Avenue, Avebury
12 min walk • Kennet Avenue or West Kennet Avenue is a prehistoric site in the English county of Wiltshire. It was an avenue of two parallel lines of stones 25m wide and 2.5 km in length, which ran between the Neolithic sites of Avebury and The Sanctuary.
0.4 miW
Historical place, Garden, Museum
Avebury Manor, Avebury
11 min walk • Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden.
1.4 miNW
Archaeological site, View point, Historical place
Windmill Hill, Avebury
36 min walk • Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres, it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain.
0.6 miSE
Archaeological site
Falkner's Circle, Avebury
15 min walk • Falkner's Circle was a stone circle near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Built from twelve sarsen megaliths, it measured about 37 metres in diameter, although only one of these stones remains standing.
1.2 miN
Church
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Avebury
32 min walk • The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century.
1.1 miSW
Archaeological site
Eve, Avebury
29 min walk • The Longstones are two standing stones, one of which is the remains of a prehistoric 'cove' of standing stones, at grid reference SU089693, close to Beckhampton in Avebury parish, in the English county of Wiltshire.
1.1 miSW
Archaeological site
South Street barrow, Avebury
28 min walk • The South Street barrow is a Neolithic long barrow in the English county of Wiltshire, near Beckhampton. It lies around 70 metres southeast of the cove of The Longstones and may therefore be connected with the Neolithic ritual landscape centred on Avebury.

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Which popular attractions are close to Stonehenge?

Nearby attractions include Avebury Manor, Avebury (11 min walk), Kennet Avenue, Avebury (12 min walk), Falkner's Circle, Avebury (15 min walk).