Ring of Stones.

63.5 Miles. Now at Bayardo Farm near Marlborough

A very unusual pub on the way to Marlborough.

We had a full day ahead of us so we left camp earlier than usual. With the bank holiday well and truly over traffic wasn’t too bad. Our first port of call was the Caen Flight on the Kennet and Avon canal. We thought as we were passing we would call in to see what was happening, which turned out to be absolutely nothing. No boats on the move what so ever. We did note some repair work that has been carried out between a couple of locks near the top. Walking back around the back of the holding ponds we found a British Waterways yard that we didn’t know existed.

We've been up and down here before. The Caen Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal.

The next destination was to be Avebury and the ring of stones. We had visited there before about 15 years ago but the roll of film we used at the time got lost and we had no record of the place.

Avebury National Trust.  The village Dove Cote.

The Old Bakery Avebury village.

Since we last visited things have changed with a new visitors car park where we had to use the coach park due to our length. We can only remember small stones in one field but there are now some enormous stones spread out over 4 fields. Were they there previously and we never noticed them or have they been added since? Some of the stones or boulder’s are so large I fail to see how we could have missed them last time.

Avebury National Trust.  The ring of stones. Rather large stone's I think.

Some stone you found there Dot.

Avebury National Trust.  The ring of stones. Some of these stones are monstrous

A good view of the Avebury ring of stones.

These stones are gigantic.

We had received a suggestion that we should visit West Kennet Longbarrow which is an old historic burial site but suitable parking didn’t appear to be available so we had to carry on to our present camp site.

Silbury Hill is a Site of Special Scientific Interest with it's fauna. It stands 130 ft high and was made about 4500 years ago.

A total of 1744 miles, since 5 March 2011