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Stonehenge to Avebury map section, courtesy of English Heritage.

There are further interesting prehistoric sites in the Stonehenge area.
First choice is undoubtedly Avebury, a larger circle of smaller stones set around a charming little village. Less than an hour's drive north of Stonehenge, you are free to walk around them, sit outside the local pub and view them over a glass of beer or hug them at your leisure with no charge at any time of the day, night or year.

Silbury Hill, just a mile or so from Avebury [see on the map, right of Avebury], is the world's largest prehistoric mound, a huge man-made hill built 4,500 years ago in a dome shape. [Go to White Horses link for more information]
Then there's West Kennet Long Barrow, a free Neolithic building, including carved Sarsens. [White Horses link]
There are also plenty of giant White Horses carved into chalk hills and prehistoric hill forts around, though the latter only involve high grassy mounds surrounded by steep rings.

Buses to Avebury run from Swindon, Devizes, Marlborough and Salisbury.

And if you're lucky, it's early summer and aliens have been busy so you may stumble across some crop circles too. Wiltshire is a popular alien graffiti zone.

Avebury photos

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