I was recently in the Stonehenge area looking at cycling routes and walks. Once Sustrans finishes its route there, we will have the the pleasure of cycling to this amazing feature without encountering main roads.
I'd read recently about The Avenue - but was completely unprepared when I came across it! The sheer scale and geography are quite amazing. This grand, curving, earthwork road is almost 2 miles long and forms a processional walk from the River Avon up to Stonehenge. Such is its geography that as you follow it, the henge comes dramatically into view on the horizon. Its as gob smacking as the revealing of the grandest opera set. Suddenly it becomes clear that Stonehenge is a lot more than a collection of stones - its a huge, stage managed landscape created some 3,000 plus BC years ago.
There's much about this landscape that is still not understood but visit if you can and enjoy the full production.
The Avenue features on OS maps and is part of the Stonehenge and Avebury Unesco World heritage Site
