Stonehenge Landscape
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UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Location | Wiltshire, England |
Part of | "Stonehenge and Associated Monuments" part of Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites |
Criteria | Cultural: (i)(ii)(iii) |
Reference | 373bis-001 |
Inscription | 1986 (10th Session) |
Extensions | 2008 |
Website | https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/stonehenge-landscape |
Coordinates | 51°10′44″N 1°49′41″W / 51.179°N 1.828°W |
The Stonehenge Landscape is a property of
Much of the land surrounding the stones was acquired in 1927 after a public appeal was launched to prevent further development on the fields around the monument.[2] The successfully purchased land was given to the National Trust for the benefit of the nation. Shortly afterwards such structures as cottages and an old World War I aerodrome were removed from the immediate vicinity of the stones.
There are two memorials to different fatal flying accidents in the area. Eustace Loraine and Staff Sergeant Wilson were killed in 1912 near to the new Stonehenge Visitors' centre. Major Hewetson was killed in a flying accident near Fargo Wood in July 1913. Later the Trust acquired more land, principally after the purchase of an adjacent farm in the early 21st century.
The land owned by the Trust comprises almost one third of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, and contains nearly 400 ancient monuments (most of them scheduled). These monuments include the enormous earthwork known as the Stonehenge Cursus, the Avenue, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, as well as numerous burial mounds known as barrows. The estate also includes some of the Nile Clumps, large clumps of trees on arable farmland, said to represent ship positions at the Battle of the Nile. This is said to form a large memorial to Horatio Nelson, created by a local landowner after Nelson's death.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the estate was the scene of the Stonehenge Free Festival. Damage to monuments such as the Cursus barrows was one of the reasons that the festival was banned in 1985.
As part of the World Heritage Site Management Plan for Stonehenge, some 340 hectares of the land will revert to
See also
- Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge
- Excavations at Stonehenge
- Theories about Stonehenge
- Cultural depictions of Stonehenge
- Stonehenge road tunnel
- Stonehenge Riverside Project
References
- ^ Susan Greaney (3 January 2018). "Stonehenge - The Gift and 100 Years of Care". English Heritage blog.
- ^ Stanley Baldwin, Ramsey Macdonald, Crawford & Balcarres; et al. (August 1927). "Stonehenge: An appeal to save it". Reproduced at ukrivers.net/savestonehenge. National Trust. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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External links
- National Trust: Stonehenge Landscape
- Map showing National Trust land – search for Stonehenge