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Ruin Attractions In Middle Claydon

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Green Dragon Rare Breeds Farm & Eco Centre

Waddesdon Manor

Hawk Conservancy Trust

West Midland Safari and Leisure Park

Stonehenge

Avebury Stone Circle

Blenheim Palace

Middle Claydon is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about 5 miles south of Buckingham and about 3.5 miles west of Winslow. The toponym Claydon is derived from the Old English for clay hill. The affix Middle differentiates the village from nearby Steeple Claydon, and East Claydon, and from the hamlet of Botolph Claydon. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the Claydon area as Claindone. The Church of England parish church of All Saints is in the grounds of Claydon House, a National Trust property. The house was the home of Sir Edmund Verney, an English Civil War Royalist, and of Florence N...
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Ruin Attractions In Middle Claydon

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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Middle Claydon Videos

National Trust's Trelissick House and Gardens, Cornwall, July 2017

I visited Trelissick House and Gardens in July 2017. The estate is owned by the National Trust and is lovely to take a long wander around. I loved how many gorgeous flowers there were to take pictures of!

Dunstable - Kensworth Lynch - Kensworth - WWID: 2748

A relatively gentle 12km walk with a few slopes. Some nice open spaces and patches of dense woodland give this walk its variation. There's an 11c. Church and some good old folklore as you work your way down Coffin Route! Watch out for the Shuck!

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