Avebury
Avebury is a village in Wiltshire, famous for its neolithic stone circle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The henge and stone circles are thought to date from about 2500 BC to 2000 BC and are roughly contemporary with the more famous Stonehenge 20 mi to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 486 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Abery” and “Avebury, Wiltshire”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Avebury and Silbury Hill.
Avebury
Nature reserve
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.
Silbury Hill
Nature reserve
Photo: Gobeirne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
West Kennet Long Barrow
Archaeological site
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The West Kennet Long Barrow, also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Berwick Bassett and Winterbourne Monkton.
Berwick Bassett
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berwick Bassett is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles northwest of Marlborough and 8 miles southwest of Swindon. The village is on the west bank of a headstream of the River Kennet and close to the A4361 road, formerly the A361, which links Devizes and Avebury with Wroughton and Swindon. Berwick Bassett is situated 2 miles north of Avebury.
Winterbourne Monkton
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winterbourne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile north of Avebury Stone Circle and 6 miles northwest of Marlborough. The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between Swindon and Devizes.
Yatesbury
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yatesbury is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cherhill, in Wiltshire, England. It is in the northeast of Cherhill parish, 1 mile north of the A4 road approximately 4 miles east of Calne and 9 miles west of Marlborough. Yatesbury is situated 2½ miles northwest of Avebury.
Avebury
- Categories: civil parish, historic site, and locality
- Location: Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4278° or 51° 25′ 40″ northLongitude
-1.8598° or 1° 51′ 35″ westPopulation
486Elevation
502 feet (153 metres)Open location code
9C3WC4HR+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 23212681OpenStreetMap feature
historic=hengeOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Avebury” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Avebury (herria)”
- Basque: “Avebury”
- Catalan: “Avebury”
- Cebuano: “Avebury”
- Chinese: “Avebury”
- Chinese: “埃夫伯里村”
- Dutch: “Avebury”
- Finnish: “Avebury”
- Finnish: “Aveburyn kivikehä”
- French: “Avebury”
- German: “Avebury”
- Hebrew: “אייוובורי”
- Irish: “Avebury”
- Italian: “Avebury”
- Japanese: “エーヴベリー”
- Ladin: “Avebury”
- Latin: “Avebury”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Avebury”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Avebury”
- Norwegian: “Avebury”
- Persian: “اوبری، ویلتشر”
- Polish: “Avebury”
- Serbo-Croatian: “SU 103699”
- Spanish: “Avebury”
- Swedish: “Avebury”
- Turkish: “Avebury (köy)”
- Turkish: “Avebury”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Avebury”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.