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Stonehenge Cursus
A free walk across the ancient landscape around Stonehenge, past an earthwork 1.9 miles long and older than the stones.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Stonehenge Landscape, near AmesburyDirections
- Getting There
- Paths start from the Stonehenge visitor centre or from Amesbury.
Why Go
The Cursus, a long, straight enclosure of banks and ditches dug between about 3630 and 3375 BC, runs across the downs north of the stones. National Trust paths lead past it and the King Barrows ridge, with distant views of Stonehenge without a ticket.
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