The region has numerous remains from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age, such as Stonehenge and Avebury.

The complex including Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar, the Standing Stones of Stenness, Skara Brae, as well as other tombs and standing stones represents a concentration of Neolithic sites that is rivalled in Britain only by the complexes associated with Stonehenge and Avebury.

The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.

Most henges do not contain stone circles ; Brodgar is a striking exception, ranking with Avebury ( and to a lesser extent Stonehenge ) among the greatest of such sites.

* Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

In 1986, UNESCO added Avebury, along with Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, and associated local sites, to its World Heritage List.

It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site, and lies at.

Several other important Neolithic monuments in Wiltshire in the care of English Heritage, including the large henges at Marden and Stonehenge, may be culturally or functionally related to Avebury and Silbury.

Hoare described it as " a city of high note in the remotest periods by the several barrows near it, and its proximity to the two largest stone circles in England, namely, Stonehenge and Avebury.

William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA ( 7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765 ) was an English antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury, work for which he has been remembered as " probably ... the most important of the early forerunners of the discipline of archaeology ".

Stukeley's principal works, elaborate accounts of Stonehenge and Avebury, appeared in 1740 and 1743.

The architecture of the United Kingdom includes many features that precede the creation of the United Kingdom in 1707, from as early as Skara Brae and Stonehenge to the Giant's Ring, Avebury and Roman ruins.

Some of the best known of these include ; Hadrian's Wall, Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites, Tower of London, Jurassic Coast, Westminster, Saltaire, Ironbridge Gorge, Studley Royal Park and various others.

It falls into four parts: ( 1 ) " Templa Druidum ", a discussion of supposed " druidic " temples, notably Avebury and Stonehenge ; ( 2 ) " Chorographia Antiquaria ", a survey of other early urban and military sites, including Roman towns, hillforts (" camps "), and castles ; ( 3 ) a review of other archaeological remains, including sepulchral monuments, roads, coins and urns ; and ( 4 ) a series of more analytical pieces, including four exercises attempting to chart the chronological stylistic evolution of handwriting, medieval architecture, costume, and shield-shapes.

In parts of Britain and Ireland the best-known type of megalithic construction is the stone circle, of which examples include Stonehenge, Avebury, Ring of Brodgar, and Beltany.

* Avebury, about N. of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire ;

Earlier monuments associated with a later henge might include Neolithic monuments such as a cursus ( e. g., at Thornborough Henges the central henge overlies the cursus ) or a long barrow such as the West Kennet Long Barrow at Avebury, Wiltshire, or even, as in the case of Stonehenge, Mesolithic post holes.

It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.

In addition, new enclosures called henges were built, along with stone rows and the famous sites of Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill, which building reached its peak at this time.

The museum has Bronze Age collections and includes finds from the World Heritage Site of Stonehenge and Avebury, including West Kennet Long Barrow, Marden Henge and Bush Barrow.

The town attracts some tourism due to its proximity to Avebury, Stonehenge and Salisbury.

Places of interest: Avebury ( stone circle ), Kennet Long-Barrow, Savernake Forest, Crofton Pumping Station, Silbury Hill, Wilton Windmill, Stonehenge, Stourhead, Longleat, Alton Barnes ( crop circles ), Stonehenge ( stone circle ), Marlborough, Kennet and Avon Canal, Bruce Tunnel.

Examples include the Stonehenge Avenue, the Beckhampton Avenue at Avebury, West Kennet Avenue and that at Thornborough.

* Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

With other nearby sites, including Silbury Hill, Beckhampton Avenue, and West Kennet Avenue, they form a UNESCO World Heritage Site called Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.

In the survey of conditions at 94 leading World Heritage Sites, 400 conservation and tourism experts ranked Stonehenge 75th in the list of destinations, declaring it to be " in moderate trouble ".

It includes two National Parks and four World Heritage Sites, including Stonehenge.

Category: Sites associated with Stonehenge

Category: Sites associated with Stonehenge

Sites such as Stonehenge also provide evidence of activity from the later Bronze Age Wessex culture.

The most famous trilithons are those of Stonehenge in England and those found in the Megalithic temples of Malta, both of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Category: Sites associated with Stonehenge

Category: Sites associated with Stonehenge

Category: Sites associated with Stonehenge

Stonehenge, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site is about 8 miles ( 13 km ) northwest of Salisbury and greatly aids the local economy.

Newgrange is also older than Stonehenge and the great pyramids of Giza It is in fact just one monument within the Neolithic Brú na Bóinne complex, alongside the similar passage tomb mounds of Knowth and Dowth, and as such is a part of the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The aqueduct was inscribed by UNESCO on the World Heritage List on 27 June 2009, alongside previously inscribed sites such as the Taj Mahal, Great Wall of China and Stonehenge.

This proposal brought further protests from the National Trust, English Heritage, UNESCO, CPRE, the Council for British Archaeology and local groups as the tunnel approach cutting would cut in two a prehistoric track way between Stonehenge and a nearby river.

In 1986, UNESCO designated Avebury ( together with Stonehenge and associated sites ) as a World Heritage Site.

During World War I an aerodrome had been built on the downs just to the west of the circle and, in the dry valley at Stonehenge Bottom, a main road junction had been built, along with several cottages and a cafe.

A replica of Stonehenge built by Samuel Hill as a monument to local men killed in World War I called Maryhill Stonehenge.

Like many World Heritage sites around the world, including Yellowstone National Park, Serengeti National Park, Stonehenge, Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Pyramids of Egypt-the park use fee helps to maintain world-best management practices and facilities for the more than 200, 000 visitors who experience Kakadu each year.

Hill used his Maryhill property to build the first paved roads in the Pacific Northwest, the Maryhill Museum of Art ( originally intended as a grand residence for the Hills ), Maryhill Stonehenge, a monument to the World War I dead of Klickitat County in the form of a Stonehenge replica, and a planned community.

Stonehenge, a World Heritage Site in Wiltshire.

Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle monument located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England.

Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths.

His projects include the Peace Arch, a monument to 100 years of peace between the United States and Canada, on the border between Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia ; the Maryhill Museum of Art, a building originally conceived as a residence ; and Maryhill Stonehenge, a replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington, a memorial to fallen World War I soldiers from Klickitat County, Washington.

The replica of Stonehenge, at Maryhill, commemorates the dead of World War I, while the Peace Arch, where today's Interstate 5 highway crosses the U. S .– Canada border, celebrates peaceful relations and the open border between the two nations.

Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.

Stonehenge and Avebury: The World Heritage Site.