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Mysterious Site Attractions In Hawkesbury Upton

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Lower Woods Nature Reserve

The Cotswold Range

Hawk Conservancy Trust

Blenheim Palace

Stonehenge

West Midland Safari and Leisure Park

Avebury Stone Circle

Hawkesbury Upton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, east of the much smaller Hawkesbury. It lies north of Horton, east of Dunkirk and south of Alderley and Hillesley. Hawkesbury Upton is close to the A46 road. The village lies on the Cotswold Way and exhibits many of the characteristics of a Cotswold village, including use of the local limestone in the majority of the buildings. The village has two pubs – the Beaufort Arms and the Fox Inn, both on the High Street – a primary school, a village shop, a post office and a hair salon. There is also a village hall with a recreation ground and a cricket club.
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Mysterious Site Attractions In Hawkesbury Upton

1. Stonehenge Amesbury
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet high, 7 feet wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stoneheng...
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2. Avebury Stone Circle Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans. Constructed over several hundred years in the Third Millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape con...
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Hawkesbury Upton Videos

Peak District Country Walk - Dovedale to Milldale return

Our video is a guided walk in the Peak District of Derbyshire from Dovedale to Milldale and return. This is a wonderful walk with beautiful scenery along side the River Dove .

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The video is taken from the website of 'JR Hackney', otherwise known as 'The Taxi Driver'. Providing you with free information on a whole host of walks around the country that we have undertaken and recommend to you.

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Admiral Hood Monument, Compton Dundon, Somerset.

The Hood monument is a memorial column to Sir Samuel Hood on a hill near Butleigh in the parish of Compton Dundon, Somerset, England.
The monument is a 110 feet (33.5 m) Tuscan column on a cuboid ashlar base set on two tall steps, the lower supporting a wrought iron railing enclosure. There was a doorway at the base but this was sealed in 1990.[2] The crown is a sculpture on a nautical theme with the sterns of four galleons interspersed with four mainsails above laurel wreaths and surmounted by a naval crown.[3]
It was paid for by public subscription and designed by Henry Goodridge.[1]
It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.[4]
There is an inscription written by Robert Southey.
It was originally linked to the Hood family home at Butleigh by a mile long avenue of cedar trees

Bonfire Night Fireworks at Upton Court Park

Firework display in Upton Court Park for Bonfire Night

Walking with Kassie: Stratford-upon-Avon Part II

January 2017.
Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.
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