Stonehenge Avenue
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.Photo: Ashley Columbus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient avenue on Salisbury plain, Wiltshire, England
- Also known as: “The Avenue”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stonehenge and Heel Stone.
Stonehenge
Photo: Oni Lukos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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. Heel Stone is situated 890 feet southwest of Stonehenge Avenue.
Altar Stone
Stone
The Altar Stone is a recumbent central megalith at Stonehenge in England, dating to Stonehenge phase 3i, around 2600 BCE. It is identified as Stone 80 in scholarly articles. Its name probably comes from a 1620 comment by Inigo Jones who wrote:… Altar Stone is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Stonehenge Avenue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stonehenge Landscape and Cursus Barrows.
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.
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 Avenue
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Amesbury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.18093° or 51° 10′ 51″ northLongitude
-1.82243° or 1° 49′ 21″ westOpen location code
9C3W55JH+92OpenStreetMap ID
way 1190054181OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q4443202
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Uzbek—“Stonehenge Avenue” goes by many names.
- French: “« Avenue »”
- French: “Avenue de Stonehenge”
- French: “Avenue”
- Hebrew: “שדרת סטונהנג‘”
- Russian: “Дорога Стоунхенджа”
- Russian: “Стоунхенджский пассаж”
- Ukrainian: “Стоунхенджський пасаж”
- Uzbek: “Stonehenge Avenue xiyoboni”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Slaughter Stone and Station Stone.
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