Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites is the name of a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the UK. The defined in 1986 a World Heritage Site comprises several Neolithic cult sites and find spots in the English county of Wiltshire. These are located in two regions around Stonehenge and Avebury, which are approximately 45 kilometers apart.

World Heritage Sites in the Stonehenge region

The Stonehenge region of the world cultural heritage located in the southern Wiltshire. She is 26 square kilometers and centered on the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge.

  • Stonehenge landscape
  • Stonehenge ( stone henge )
  • Stonehenge Avenue
  • Stonehenge Cursus ( Large circulation)
  • Stonehenge Cursus Lesser ( Smaller circulation)
  • Stonehenge New Henge ( Henge New )
  • Durrington Walls ( rampart )
  • Woodhenge ( Wood Henge )
  • Coneybury Henge ( Henge was flat plowed )
  • King Barrow Ridge ( grave ridge )
  • Winterbourne Stoke Barrow Group ( grave mound group)
  • Normanton Down Barrow Group ( grave mound group)
  • " Vespasian 's Camp " ( hill fort of the Iron Age )
  • "Robin Hood 's Ball "
  • Bluehenge ( Blue Stone Henge )

World Heritage Sites in the Avebury region

The Avebury region of the world cultural heritage located in the northern Wiltshire. It is 22.5 km ² and is centered on the henge of Avebury.

Museums and collections

The most important collections of these world heritage sites can be found in:

  • Alexander Keiler Museum
  • Salisbury Museum
  • Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes
England Bluestonehenge St Augustine's Abbey Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Derwent Valley Mills Greenwich Hadrian's Wall Ironbridge The Iron Bridge Jurassic Coast Saltaire Studley Royal Park Fountains Abbey Antonine Wall Heart of Neolithic Orkney New Lanark St Kilda, Scotland Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands) Inaccessible Island
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