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Download your free audio Key to Stonehenge landscape and World Heritage Site LOTS guide, to your smartphone Before Stonehenge 8000 BC device, using our free TO DO Wi-Fi throughout the 1 Mesolithic Postholes visitor centre. Before Stonehenge 3700 – 3000 BC 2 Stonehenge Cursus 3 Long Barrow Time of Stonehenge 3000 – 2200 BC 4 Stonehenge Avenue 6 Cuckoo Stone 5 Woodhenge 7 Durrington Walls Stonehenge landscape and World Heritage Site After Stonehenge was built 2200 – 1600 BC Winterbourne Stoke 8 11 Cursus barrows crossroads barrows 9 Stonehenge Down barrows 12 King Barrow Ridge 2 Normanton Down barrows Not accessible to the general public 10 and for safety reasons we do not advise crossing the A303 to view them. 11 3 7 8 6 National Trust permissive Access gate open access areas There are numerous access points 1 12 The National Trust is a charity, across the National Trust land. 5 registered number 205846. Key gates are shown on the map, 4 Fargo drop off point. Ask the driver but others are available. 9 to stop here if you’d like to get off and walk the remaining distance to stones. Key to visitor centre facilities Toilets All toilet locations Transport have an accessible toilet. 10 Ticket ofﬁ ce Café Dogs on leads are allowed around Exhibition the outside of the visitor centre but not in monument ﬁ eld or on shuttle Coach Shop bus. To protect livestock there are drop off Visitor centre A Stone Circle restrictions on dogs on National Parking Trust permissive open access land. C Please see www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ Groups B Coach parking stonehenge-landscape for details. reception F D Motorhome parking E Key to Stone Circle Visitor shuttle H G (groups) Please note these are not the audio tour stops. A The Stonehenge Avenue G Station Stone markers FROM J VISITOR I STONE CIRCLETO THE SHUTTLE B Arrow showing solstice alignment H Sarsen stones Visitor G C Heel Stone I Bluestones TO A303 shuttle D Stone hole marker J Horseshoe of sarsen trilithons Walking route to the stones K E Slaughter Stone K Aubrey Hole markers Neolithic houses TO F Station Stones L Bank and ditch Airman’s Cross Memorial VISITOR F SHUTTLE ACCESS INFORMATION L The path around the stones is accessible, weather dependent. The landscape is uneven in places and and may be unsuitable for standard wheelchairs. Assistance dogs are welcome There are accessible toilets, baby You can either walk or take a shuttle bus to the Stone Circle. You can explore the rest of the landscape on foot to discover many other ancient monuments in this World Heritage Site. Please take care in all areas of the site open changing and accessible changing near roads and keep to the designated paths at all times when walking along them. While Stonehenge is managed by English Heritage, the National Trust owns the surrounding landscape. to the public. facilities at the Visitor Centre..

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