Durrington Walls
Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury in Wiltshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Woodhenge and Vespasian’s Camp.
Woodhenge
Photo: Adrian Farwell, CC BY 3.0.
Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury. Woodhenge is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Durrington Walls.
Vespasian’s Camp
Cliff
Photo: Psychostevouk, Public domain.
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. Vespasian’s Camp is situated 1¼ miles south of Durrington Walls.
Blick Mead
Archaeological site
Blick Mead is a chalkland spring in Wiltshire, England, separated by the River Avon from the northwest edge of the town of Amesbury. It is close to an Iron Age hillfort known as Vespasian's Camp and about a mile east of the Stonehenge ancient monument. Blick Mead is situated 1 mile south of Durrington Walls.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Durrington and Larkhill.
Durrington
Village
Photo: Shqippy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Durrington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village lies about 2 miles north of the town of Amesbury, 10 miles north-northeast of the city of Salisbury, and 2+1⁄2 miles northeast of the Stonehenge monument.
Larkhill
Village
Photo: Ashley Columbus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Larkhill is a garrison town in the civil parish of Durrington, Wiltshire, England. It lies about 1+3⁄4 miles west of the centre of Durrington village and 1+1⁄2 mi north of the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge.
Bulford
Village
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bulford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, near Salisbury Plain. The village is close to Durrington and about 1.5 miles north of the town of Amesbury.
Durrington Walls
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: the site of a large Neolithic settlement, village; also it enclosed several hedges;
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Amesbury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.19223° or 51° 11′ 32″ northLongitude
-1.78942° or 1° 47′ 22″ westElevation
285 feet (87 metres)Open location code
9C3W56R6+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 527357301OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Durrington Walls” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Murs de Durrington”
- Cebuano: “Durrington Walls”
- Esperanto: “Muroj de Durrington”
- French: “Durrington Walls”
- German: “Durrington Walls”
- Hebrew: “חומות דארינגטון”
- Hebrew: “חומות דרינגטון”
- Japanese: “ダーリントン・ウォールズ”
- Latin: “Durrington Walls”
- Russian: “Даррингтон-Уоллс”
- Russian: “Даррингтон-Уолс”
- Spanish: “Muros de Durrington”
- Swedish: “Durrington Walls”
- Ukrainian: “Дарінгтон-Волс”
- Urdu: “ڈورنگٹن دیواریں”
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