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| Avebury, Wiltshire |
| An aerial view of Avebury. |
| Another aerial view of Avebury. |
| West Kennet Avenue, Avebury. |
| Lych Gate and a 16th Century Cottage in Avebury. |
| "The Temple of Avebury (1) (A restoration after J. Britton). The Great Stone Circle, it is said, was approached by two avenues of 200 stones each, which took a sinuous course south-east and south-west, and represented a snake transmitted through a circle." A 1909 postcard. |
| No date for this view of the Avebury stones. |
| To see Avebury on a map, please follow this link. |
| Did You Know.......that the Red Lion in Avebury is supposed to be haunted ? It is reported, for instance, that the former Blue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding was at the pub, recording a documentary on ghosts, but could stay only five minutes in a private room. She claimed that she felt something touch her neck and that it left red marks on her back. Other visitors have reported similar experiences. |
| Did You Also Know.......about this ? The following is from a Paranormal Website from Philadelphia, www.delcoghosts.com. In 1916, a woman was driving along through Wiltshire. It began raining fairly heavily, and she began to look for a place to stay the night. She left the main road and noticed that the side road she was traveling was lined by standing stones. Her first thought was that she must be going through Avebury, which she had heard about but never seen. As she reached the end of the road, she got out of the car to view the stones. She noticed some cottages around the stones and that there appeared to be a fair going on in spite of the rain. The fair had booths set up and the villagers could be seen visiting the various booths, cheering performers, and walking about the fair with flares and torches. Not one of the villagers was carrying an umbrella or wearing any type of rain gear.The rain then began coming down in earnest and the woman resumed her journey. She returned to Avebury nine years later. She read in her guidebook that there had once been an annual fair in Avebury, but the last one was in 1850! She informed the guide that she had seen one recently and the guide stated that was impossible. When the woman further tried to explain how she had happened on the fair by describing the road she had traveled to get there, the guide informed her that the road she was describing did not exist after 1800. |
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| Avebury is a village in Wiltshire, England, which has grown up around, and as can be seen from the postcard below, inside a prehistoric stone circle. Two roads intersect inside the circle, and visitors can walk round the stones and on the earthworks. Nearby are Silbury Hill and West Kennet Long Barrow. |
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| The Devil's Chair is one of the largest stones at Avebury. |
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