Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

Prior to Parsons ' departure from The Byrds, he had accompanied the two Rolling Stones to Stonehenge ( along with McGuinn and Hillman ) in the English county of Wiltshire, where Richards had a house near the ancient site.

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury.

Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.

"< ref name =" OEDhenge "> Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words stān meaning " stone ", and either hencg meaning " hinge " ( because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones ) or hen ( c ) en meaning " hang " or " gallows " or " instrument of torture ".

Later archaeologists, including Christopher Chippindale of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge and Brian Edwards of the University of the West of England, campaigned to give the public more knowledge of the various restorations and in 2004 English Heritage included pictures of the work in progress in its book Stonehenge: A History in Photographs.

* Cleal, R. M. J., Walker, K. E. & Montague, R., Stonehenge in its landscape ( English Heritage, London, 1995 )

* Richards, J, English Heritage Book of Stonehenge ( B T Batsford Ltd, 1991 )

* Julian Richards Stonehenge: A History in Photographs ( English Heritage, London, 2004 )

* English Heritage: Stonehenge: Historical Background

* Stonehenge 20th Century Excavations Databases An English Heritage commissioned report by Wessex Archaeology on the 20th century excavations.

They started the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1974, but English Heritage later banned the festival, resulting in the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985.

English Heritage's best known role is as the steward of over 400 significant historical and archaeological sites, from Stonehenge to the world's earliest iron bridge.

Stonehenge, one of English Heritage's most famous sites

English Heritage is the guardian of over 400 sites and monuments, the most famous of which include Stonehenge, Iron Bridge and Dover Castle.

Nearby is the pre-historic site of Stonehenge, which is administered by English Heritage.

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.

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 ".

Attempting to rid themselves of the problem of the protestors, English Heritage gained an interim injunction banning a series of the most prominent protestors from the vicinity of the site, including Des Crow, Geoff Needham, Buster Nolan and Rollo Maughfling, the self-declared " Archdruid of Stonehenge and Glastonbury ", who at one point and climbed on top of Seahenge to declare an eight-point proclamation.

In recent years on the Summer Solstice, English Heritage has run a " Managed Open Access " to Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice celebrations.

Alton Towers grew into a collection of gardens: a Swiss Cottage, a Stonehenge, a Dutch garden, a Pagoda Fountain, said to be based on the To Ho pagoda in Canton, Lysicrates ' Choragic Monument from Athens ( a feature in English gardens since the 1760s ), domed glasshouses ( originally gilded ), even a fairly large Matterhorn as a backing to one of England's earliest Alpine gardens.

This monument complex has been called ' The Stonehenge of the North ' and has been described by English Heritage as the most important ancient site between Stonehenge and the Orkney Islands.

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.

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

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.

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

Stonehenge, a World Heritage Site in Wiltshire.

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

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.

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

* Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites, the UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Wiltshire, England.

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.

This was the official name of the site until 1982, when it was renamed " America's Stonehenge ", a term coined in a news article in the early 1960s, in an effort to separate it from roadside oddity sites and reinforce the idea that it is an ancient archaeological site.

As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian usage, and Stonehenge is not truly a henge site as its bank is inside its ditch.

In approximately 3500 BC, a Stonehenge Cursus was built north of the site as the first farmers began to clear the trees and develop the area.

Hengist erected the stone monument — Stonehenge — on the site to show his remorse for the deed.

Between 1972 and 1984, Stonehenge was the site of a Stonehenge Free Festival.

After the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985 this use of the site was stopped for several years, and currently ritual use of Stonehenge is carefully controlled.

This two year research project resulted in the publication in 1995 of the monograph Stonehenge in its landscape, which was the first publication presenting the complex stratigraphy and the finds recovered from the site.

They also discovered organic material from 7000 BC, which, along with the Mesolithic postholes, adds support for the site having been in use at least 4, 000 years before Stonehenge was started.

In July 2010, the Stonehenge New Landscapes Project discovered what appears to be a new henge less than away from the main site.

With Stonehenge banned as a festival site, new age travellers gather at the annual Glastonbury Festival.

In King's Meadow, the hill at the far south of the site, is a small megalith circle which, like Stonehenge, is coordinated with the summer solstice, and since 1990 represents a Stone circle.

The Amesbury Archer is an early Bronze Age man whose grave was discovered during excavations at the site of a new housing development in Amesbury near Stonehenge.

This isn't rare in the prehistoric world, as the bluestones from Stonehenge were brought to the site in Salisbury from the Preseli Mountains in Wales.

America's Stonehenge is an archaeological site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around roughly within the town of Salem, New Hampshire in the northeast United States.

Although the area is named after the archaeological site of Stonehenge in England, there is no cultural connection between the two.

Recent ongoing investigations as part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project are now starting to cast new light on the site.

Archaeologists discovered Woodhenge during excavation of the site and noted that the placement of posts marked solstices and equinoxes, like its namesake, Stonehenge.

Hill chose a ledge below his Stonehenge replica for his burial site, and designed his own monument ; but that monument did not last, and has since been replaced.

German media have called the site " German Stonehenge ," although the use of the term henge for structures outside Britain and Ireland is disputed and it apparently has no earth bank.