- Over the last 1,000 years Christianity, ignorance and the need for building materials, have all combined to destroy many of the standing stones in Avebury.
- Avebury is a small village in the centre of the county of Wiltshire to the south of Swindon and west of Marlborough.
- Avebury , archaeological site in Kennet district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire , England , some 18.5 miles (30 km) north of Stonehenge .
- Visitors can respectively touch the stones of Avebury, walk the pagan avenues or ponder the mysteries of Silbury Hill (the largest Neolithic construction in Europe).
- But have you heard of Avebury? Unlike Stonehenge, you can get up close and personal with the stones and access isn’t restricted.
- Only 1500 meters south of the main Avebury rings stands Silbury Hill, the largest, and perhaps the most enigmatic, of all megalithic constructions in Europe.
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- We have a page with a 3-mile self-guided walk around Avebury, West Kennet and Silbury Hill, so you can explore the prehistoric landscape at your leisure.
- The name Avebury, however, implies that at some time in its history, it was a burial site and was referred to as such in the 10th-century charter of King Athelstan.