{"id":2269,"date":"2017-08-25T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:40:39","slug":"exploring-wiltshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=2269","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Wiltshire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today Jon was collecting his new car so we trundled over to Hungerford.  First off, bacon butties at Cobbs Farm before handing back the old car for a new shiny version!  Jon wanted an excuse for a drive to get used to the new car so we continued down the A4 through Hungerford to see what we could find on the National Trust \/ English Heritage front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First stop was at Silbury Hill<\/a><\/strong> – a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/p>\n\n\n

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From here we drove a little further on to Avebury itself to visit the Stone Circles<\/a><\/strong>.  Built and much altered during the Neolithic period, roughly between 2850 BC and 2200 BC, the henge survives as a huge circular bank and ditch, encircling an area that includes part of Avebury village. Within the henge is the largest stone circle in Britain – originally of about 100 stones – which in turn encloses two smaller stone circles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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