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Woodhenge

Concrete posts marking a vanished timber circle, beside the huge henge where Stonehenge's builders may have lived.

Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open
Always
Price
Free
Time Needed
45 minutes
Address
Countess Road, AmesburyDirections
Getting There
About 1.9 miles northeast of Stonehenge, just north of Amesbury.

Why Go

Rings of wooden posts once stood here, now marked by low concrete pillars. Next door, the earthworks of Durrington Walls enclose what may have been the largest settlement in northern Europe around 2500 BC, a village of feasting thought to be linked with the building of Stonehenge.

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