Avebury (/ˈeɪvbəri/) is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 5.5 miles (9 km) west of Marlborough and 8 miles (13 km)...
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Avebury (/ˈeɪvbəri/) is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One...
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The barber surgeon of Avebury is a skeleton discovered in 1938 at Avebury henge monument in Wiltshire, England. The body was found underneath a buried...
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Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) in Wiltshire, England. The WHS covers two large areas of land separated...
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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...
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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, PC, DL, FRS, FRAI (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until...
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prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World...
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The Sanctuary The Sanctuary was a stone and timber circle near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Excavation has revealed...
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businessman and philanthropist. He worked on an extensive prehistoric site at Avebury in Wiltshire, England, and helped ensure its preservation. Keiller was...
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Stonehenge (redirect from Stonehenge and Associated Monuments - Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites)
properties are frequent in the Carn Melyn ridge of Presili; the Presili village of Maenclochog (Welsh for bell or ringing stones) used local bluestones...
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curving prehistoric avenue of stones that ran broadly south west from Avebury towards The Longstones at Beckhampton in the English county of Wiltshire...
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Winterbourne Monkton (category Villages in Wiltshire)
Winterbourne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Avebury Stone Circle and 6 miles (10 km)...
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East Kennett (category Villages in Wiltshire)
and the village lies close to the river. The neighbouring village of West Kennett is on the opposite bank a short distance upstream, in Avebury parish...
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Avon Canal Museum, Devizes Kennet Avenue, Avebury King Alfred's Tower, Stourhead Lacock Abbey Lacock village, largely owned by the National Trust Littlecote...
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Winterbourne Bassett (category Villages in Wiltshire)
between Swindon and Devizes, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Avebury. The minor road through the village continues west to Clyffe Pypard. The remains of a Late...
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also known as South Long Barrow, is a chambered long barrow near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Probably constructed...
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Berwick Bassett (category Villages in Wiltshire)
and close to the A4361 road, formerly the A361, which links Devizes and Avebury with Wroughton and Swindon. The parish of Berwick Bassett is part of Calne...
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Penelope Keith (redirect from Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages)
Retrieved 26 April 2024. "Penelope Keith hosts 'The Manor Reborn' at Avebury". BBC News. 6 August 2011. Parker, Olivia (3 September 2015). "Penelope...
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Wroughton (category Villages in Wiltshire)
village and civil parish in northeast Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and lies along the A4361 between Swindon and Avebury;...
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West Overton (category Villages in Wiltshire)
the stone circles at Avebury, 2.5km to the northwest, by two lines of stones known as West Kennet Avenue. North of the village, on the slopes of Overton...
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Among the most important are the Wiltshire sites around Stonehenge and Avebury, which are designated as a World Heritage Site. Bathampton Down, Iron Age...
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activity for thousands of years. The hill is part of the Avebury section of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site. Historic England. "Group of five...
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Lockeridge (category Villages in Wiltshire)
Valley, 2.9 miles (4.7 km) west of Marlborough, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) east of Avebury and 10.5 miles (16.9 km) south of Swindon. It is 0.6 miles (0.97 km) south...
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monument is north-east of the village of Marden, Wiltshire, within the Vale of Pewsey and between the World Heritage Sites of Avebury and Stonehenge. The enclosure...
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after they arrive in the small village of Milbury, which is built in the midst of a megalithic stone circle. Filmed at Avebury, Wiltshire during the hot summer...
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property and is open to the public. The great stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury were erected nearby and indications of prehistoric settlement have been...
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University Press. ISBN 0-300-01972-6. Burl, Aubrey (1979). Prehistoric Avebury. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02368-5. Castleden, Rodney (1987)...
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Stanton Drew (redirect from Stanton Drew (village))
in Britain, after Avebury. The circle is 113 m in diameter and probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today. The village has a range of listed...
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not contain stone circles; Brodgar is a striking exception, ranking with Avebury and Stonehenge among the greatest of such sites. The ring of stones stands...
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and Winterborne Whitechurch. In north Wiltshire, north of Avebury, there are the villages of Winterbourne Monkton and Winterbourne Bassett, and in south...
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