Kennet Avenue
Kennet Avenue or West Kennet Avenue is a prehistoric site in the English county of Wiltshire. It was originally an avenue of two parallel lines of stones 25m wide and 2.5 km in length, which ran between the Neolithic sites of Avebury and The Sanctuary.Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: prehistoric avenue in Great Britain
- Also known as: “West Kennet Avenue”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Avebury and Silbury Hill.
Avebury
Nature reserve
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.
Avebury Manor and Garden
Historic building
Photo: JürgenMatern, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in Avebury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in the centre of the village next to St James's Church and close to the Avebury neolithic henge monument. Avebury Manor and Garden is situated 3,300 feet northwest of Kennet Avenue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winterbourne Monkton and West Overton.
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. Winterbourne Monkton is situated 1½ miles north of Kennet Avenue.
West Overton
Village
Photo: UKgeofan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
West Overton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.5 miles west of Marlborough. The river Kennet runs immediately north of the village, separating it from the A4 road. West Overton is situated 2 miles southeast of Kennet Avenue.
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 2½ miles north of Kennet Avenue.
Kennet Avenue
- Categories: ancient trackway, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Avebury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.42291° or 51° 25′ 23″ northLongitude
-1.84841° or 1° 50′ 54″ westOpen location code
9C3WC5F2+5JOpenStreetMap ID
way 189565139OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q1335849
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Kennet Avenue” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Avinguda Kennet”
- Chinese: “西肯尼特大道”
- French: “Kennet Avenue”
- German: “Kennet Avenue”
- German: “West Kennet Avenue”
- Hebrew: “שדרת מערב קנט”
- Irish: “Kennet Avenue”
- Japanese: “ウェスト・ケネット・アヴェニュー”
- Japanese: “ケネット・アヴェニュー”
- Russian: “Кеннет-Авеню”
- Russian: “Кеннетская авеню”
- Russian: “Кеннетский пассаж”
- Russian: “Уэст-Кеннетский пассаж”
- Spanish: “Avenida de Kennet”
- Spanish: “Avenida Kennet occidental”
- Spanish: “Avenida Kennet”
- Spanish: “Kennet avenue”
- Spanish: “West Kennet Avenue”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Waden Hill and The Clubhouse at Avebury.
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