Avebury Stone Circle & surrounding sites - 8 miles

Join us as we explore Avebury World Heritage site on this Winter Solstice 8 mile hike.

Tickets for this event cost £15.00. This payment is non-refundable. It will only be refunded in the event of a non-weather related cancellation. *Tickets/spaces for this walk/event are pre booked and pre paid, please don't just turn up on the day with cash*

Highlits incude -
Averbury Henge and Stone Circles. The outer Sone Circle is the largest Stone Circle in the world.
Silbury Hill - Mysterious Silbury Hill is the largest man made monolith in Europe.
West Kennet Avenue or the Avenue of Stones, once a 1 1/2 mile long avenue of of over a 100 Standing Stones.
West Kennet Long Barrow - Built around 3,500 BC, one of largest, impressive and most accessible Neolithic burial chambers in Britain.

We will also visit the site of an enormous Wood Henge.

We will then walk back along the 'Ridgeway', Britain's oldest long distance footpath and Pilgrimage route.

Bring layers, as well as touring sites we will have a walk of several miles across fields and along the Ridgeway. If the weather turns the Ridgeway is pretty exposed.

Bring enough food, snacks and water to sustain you.

This walk will be slower than usual due to the amount of sites we will be visiting.

How to find us -

The Sanctuary car park, A4, Marlborough, SN8 1EY

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• This month, 29th June, 07:30 am, A hike from Symmonds Yat West to Kerne Bridge - 9 miles. Canoe back along Wye. in Monmouth