Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monument in a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The WHS is quite large and contains many other structures from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Oni Lukos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Neolithic henge monument in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Stonehenge, the Avenue, and Three Barrows Adjacent to the Avenue Forming Part of a Round Barrow Cemetery on Countess Farm”
- Address: Shrewton, Wiltshire, SP4 7DE
- Wheelchair access: yes
Photo: Resk, Public domain.
Photo: Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Heel Stone and Stonehenge Avenue.
Heel Stone
Stone
Photo: Heikki Immonen, CC BY 3.0.
The Heel Stone is a single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge earthwork in Wiltshire, England.
Stonehenge Avenue
Archaeological site
Photo: Ashley Columbus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Stonehenge Cursus
Archaeological site
Photo: Psychostevouk, Public domain.
The Stonehenge Cursus is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. It is roughly 3 kilometres long and between 100 metres and 150 metres wide.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Larkhill and Stonehenge Landscape.
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.
Stonehenge Landscape
Locality
Photo: Ranger Steve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Stonehenge Landscape is a property of The National Trust, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The estate covers 2,100 acres surrounding the Neolithic monument of Stonehenge, which is administered by English Heritage.
Cursus Barrows
Locality
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cursus Barrows is the name given to a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery lying mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus, in Wiltshire, England.
Stonehenge
- Categories: cromlech, monument, archaeological site, history museum, henge, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Amesbury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.1788° or 51° 10′ 44″ northLongitude
-1.8261° or 1° 49′ 34″ westElevation
331 feet (101 metres)Open location code
9C3W55HF+GHOpenStreetMap ID
way 37118074OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Stonehenge” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Stonehenge”
- Albanian: “Stonehenge”
- Arabic: “Stonehenge”
- Arabic: “خواتم الصخور”
- Arabic: “ستونهنج”
- Arabic: “صخور هنج”
- Armenian: “Սթոունհենջ”
- Armenian: “Սթոունհենջի կրոմլեխ”
- Assamese: “ষ্ট’নহেঞ্জ”
- Assamese: “ষ্টনহেঞ্জ”
- Asturian: “Stonehenge”
- Azerbaijani: “Stounhenc”
- Azerbaijani: “Stounhenç”
- Balinese: “Stonehenge”
- Bashkir: “Стоунхендж”
- Bashkir: “Стоунһендж”
- Basque: “Stonehenge”
- Bavarian: “Stonehenge”
- Belarusian: “Стоўнгэндж”
- Belarusian: “Стоўнхендж”
- Bengali: “স্টোনহেঞ্জ”
- Bhojpuri: “स्टोनहेंज”
- Bosnian: “Stonehenge”
- Breton: “Stonehenge”
- Bulgarian: “Стоунхендж”
- Burmese: “စတုန်းဟင်းချ်”
- Catalan: “Stonehenge”
- Cebuano: “Stonehenge”
- Central Bikol: “Stonehenge”
- Central Kurdish: “ستۆنھێنج”
- Chavacano: “Stonehenge”
- Cherokee: “ᏅᏯ ᏙᏗᎦᏙᎬ”
- Chinese: “Stonehenge”
- Chinese: “史前巨石阵”
- Chinese: “巨石圈”
- Chinese: “巨石阵”
- Chinese: “巨石陣”
- Chinese: “石围圈”
- Chuvash: “Стоунхендж”
- Cornish: “Dons an Gewri”
- Croatian: “Stonehenge”
- Czech: “Stonehenge”
- Danish: “Stonehenge”
- Dhivehi: “ސްޓޯންހެންޖް”
- Dutch: “Stonehenge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ستونهنج”
- Esperanto: “Stonehenge”
- Estonian: “Stonehenge”
- Faroese: “Stonehenge”
- Finnish: “Stonehenge”
- French: “Stonehenge”
- Galician: “Stonehenge”
- Georgian: “სტოუნჰენჯი”
- German: “Stonehenge”
- Greek: “Stonehenge”
- Greek: “Στόουνχεντζ”
- Greek: “Στόουνχετζ”
- Guianese Creole French: “Stonehenge”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ki-sa̍k-chhṳn”
- Hebrew: “סטונהנג‘”
- Hebrew: “סטונהנג’”
- Hebrew: “סטונהנג”
- Hindi: “स्टोनहॅन्ज”
- Hungarian: “Stonehenge”
- Icelandic: “Stonehenge”
- Ido: “Stonehenge”
- Inari Sami: “Stonehenge”
- Indonesian: “Stonehenge”
- Interlingua: “Stonehenge”
- Irish: “Stonehenge”
- Italian: “Stonehenge”
- Japanese: “ストーンヘンジ”
- Javanese: “Stonehenge”
- Kabiyè: “Stonehenge”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಟೋನ್ ಹೆಂಜ್”
- Kazakh: “Стоунхендж”
- Korean: “스톤 헨지”
- Korean: “스톤헨지 유적”
- Korean: “스톤헨지”
- Kurdish: “Stonehenge”
- Latin: “Chorea Gigantum”
- Latin: “Stonehenge”
- Latvian: “Stonhendža”
- Latvian: “Stounhendža”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Stonehenge”
- Lithuanian: “Stonehenge”
- Lithuanian: “Stonhendžas”
- Lithuanian: “Stounhendžas”
- Low German: “Stonehenge”
- Luxembourgish: “Stonehenge”
- Macedonian: “Стоунхенџ”
- Malagasy: “Stonehenge”
- Malay: “Stonehenge”
- Malayalam: “സ്റ്റോൺഹെഞ്ച്”
- Malayalam: “സ്റ്റോൺഹെൻജ്”
- Maltese: “Stonehenge”
- Marathi: “स्टोनहेंज”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Stonehenge”
- Mongolian: “Стоунхенж”
- Mongolian: “Стоунхэнж”
- Narom: “Estanhenge”
- Narom: “Stonehenge”
- Nepali: “स्टोनहेज”
- Northern Frisian: “Stonehenge”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stonehenge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stonehenge”
- Norwegian: “Stonehenge”
- Novial: “Stonehenge”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Stonehenge”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stānhencg”
- Panjabi: “ਸਟੋਨਹੈਂਜ”
- Persian: “استون هنج”
- Persian: “استونهنج”
- Persian: “استونهنج”
- Polish: “Stonehenge”
- Portuguese: “Stonehenge, Avebury e Sítios Associados”
- Portuguese: “Stonehenge”
- Pushto: “سټونهېنج”
- Romanian: “Stonehenge”
- Russian: “Stone Handge”
- Russian: “Stone Hedge”
- Russian: “Stone henge”
- Russian: “Stonehenge”
- Russian: “Стонхендж”
- Russian: “Стоун Хэндж”
- Russian: “Стоун-Хэндж”
- Russian: “Стоунхендж”
- Scots: “Stonehenge”
- Serbian: “Stonehenge”
- Serbian: “Stounhendž”
- Serbian: “Стонхенџ”
- Serbian: “Стоунхенџ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stonehenge”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Stounhendž”
- Sicilian: “Stonehenge”
- Slovak: “Stonehenge”
- Slovenian: “Stonehenge”
- South Azerbaijani: “استون هنج”
- Spanish: “Stonehenge”
- Swedish: “Stone henge”
- Swedish: “Stonehenge”
- Tagalog: “Stonehenge”
- Tamil: “கல்வட்டம்”
- Tamil: “ஸ்டோனெஞ்ச்”
- Tamil: “ஸ்டோன் ஹெஞ்”
- Tamil: “ஸ்டோன் ஹெஞ்ச்”
- Tamil: “ஸ்டோன்ஹெஞ்ச்”
- Tatar: “Стоунһендж”
- Tatar: “Стоунһенҗ”
- Telugu: “స్టోన్ హెంజ్”
- Telugu: “స్టోన్హెంజ్”
- Thai: “Stonehenge”
- Thai: “สโตนเฮนจ์”
- Thai: “สโตนเฮ้นจ์”
- Turkish: “Stonehedge”
- Turkish: “Stonehenge”
- Ukrainian: “Stone Handge”
- Ukrainian: “Stone Hedge”
- Ukrainian: “Stone henge”
- Ukrainian: “Stonehenge”
- Ukrainian: “Висячі Камені”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун Гедж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун Гендж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун хедж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун Хедж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун Хендж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун-Гедж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун-Гендж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун-Хедж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоун-Хендж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоунгедж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоунгендж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоунгенджський кромлех”
- Ukrainian: “Стоунхедж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоунхеджський кромлех”
- Ukrainian: “Стоунхендж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоунхенджський кромлех”
- Urdu: “اسٹون ہینج”
- Urdu: “سٹون ہینج”
- Uzbek: “Stonehenge”
- Veps: “Stounhendž”
- Vietnamese: “Stonehenge”
- Waray (Philippines): “Stonehenge”
- Welsh: “Cor y Cewri”
- Welsh: “Côr y Cewri”
- Welsh: “Gwaith Emrys”
- Welsh: “Stonehenge”
- Western Frisian: “Stonehenge”
- Western Panjabi: “سٹونہنج”
- Wu Chinese: “巨石阵”
- Yue Chinese: “Stonehenge”
- Yue Chinese: “巨石陣”
- Yue Chinese: “石柱羣”
- “स्टोनहेंज”
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