Guided Tours of Stonehenge
I am a professional tour guide who can provide ‘private’ guided sightseeing tours of Stonehenge for small groups. I specialise in Stonehenge and ancient Britain and can often get permission from the...
View ArticleStep back in time at Stonehenge this winter
Visitors to Stonehenge are being invited to step through the doorways of its Neolithic houses and into prehistory this winter as expert-led events and demonstrations are offered for the first time.#...
View ArticleStonehenge experiment to be repeated with ‘lost’ stones
Another attempt is to be made to solve the mystery of how the largest stones used to build Stonehenge were moved. The experiment was first carried out in a BBC documentary in 1996 In 1996, a BBC TV...
View ArticleMidwinter walk: Explore the ancient Stonehenge Landscape on the Winter...
On the midwinter solstice, explore the ancient monuments of the Stonehenge landscape. This walk is around four and a half miles. 21st December 2014: Ancient ceremonial landscape of great archaeological...
View ArticleThe Stonehenge Landscape Tour, introduced by Phil Harding: CBA Members’ Event
Join Time Team favourite Phil Harding and expert guide Pat Shelley for a unique exploration of the Stonehenge landscape at the exclusive Council for British Archaeology (CBA) and English Heritage (EH)...
View ArticleSights to visit around Stonehenge.
While Stonehenge is by far and away the superstar of southern England, and no visit to Wiltshire is complete without touring it, Stonehenge is in fact just one of many ancient sites in the area....
View ArticleBarrows or Burial Mounds Near Stonehenge.
The area within a 2 mile radius around Stonehenge contains more than 300 Bronze Age burial mounds or “barrows”. Often these are clustered into what are termed “cemeteries” – groups of barrows that...
View ArticleEver wondered where the builders of Stonehenge lived? Discover Durrington...
Discover Durrington Walls. Join the National Trust landscape guides to explore the secrets of Durrington Walls – once home to the builders of Stonehenge – and discover 6,000 years of hidden history...
View ArticleStonehenge, King Arthur and Merlin
Merlin makes his first appearance in the Stonehenge story in Book 8, Chapter 10, of Geoffrey of Monmouth‘s epic work “Historia Regum Britanniae” (The History of the Kings of Britain, c. 1136AD) when...
View ArticleThe Stonehenge visitor centre and excellent English Heritage exhibition.
From 1968 until 2013, the visitor facilities at Stonehenge amounted to a collection of brutalist concrete bunkers, and a small car park almost opposite the monument alongside the old A344 road, with a...
View ArticleSummer Solstice at Stonehenge. From Past to Present.
Although there was historically a Summer Fayre at Stonehenge held on traditional midsummer’s day of the 24th of June, it was only comparatively recently that the association between Stonehenge and the...
View ArticleStonehenge Events and News: Open days, talks, exhibitions, guided walks and...
There is always something happening around the Stonehenge World Heritage Site with events such as open days, family activities, lectures and guided tours for both adults and families. Please check the...
View Article2019 Stonehenge Opening Hours, Entry Prices and Tickets.
Stonehenge Opening Times and Entrance Prices. English Heritage advise to expect a visit to last around two hours. Please see the table below for opening times for 2019, with some seasonal variability,...
View ArticleTicking Stonehenge off your bucket list.
For people across the world- Stonehenge is a must see location, it’s majesty as well as it’s mystery has made it a mainstay on everyone’s bucket list. However, here lies the problem. Is Stonehenge...
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