From the great outer circle two avenues of stones, each a mile and a half long and 50 feet wide, extended outwards. The WEST KENNET AVENUE reaches out to the SE and terminates on Overton Hill at the Sanctuary. Originally consisting of 100 pairs of stones, only 27 stones remain although markers provide an idea of how the avenue snaked into Avebury. The stones alternate in shape between wide angular shapes and tall thinner ones and many believe this to be female and male representations.

The BECKHAMPTON AVENUE extended in a SW direction and the only surface sign left is three quarters of a mile to the west of the stone circle where the LONGSTONES or ADAM & EVE stand. Eve is the eastern of the 2 stones and would have formed part of the avenue while Adam was once part of a three sided cove arrangement.

There is nothing quite like Stonehenge anywhere in the world and for 5000 years it has drawn visitors to it. Standing like soldiers of time,' we shall never know what drew people here over the centuries or why hundreds of people struggled over thousands of years to build this monument, but visitors from all over the world come to marvel at this amazing feat of engineering. To this day Stonehenge remains a mystery.

Before Stonehenge was built thousands of years ago, the whole of Salisbury Plain was a forest of towering pines and hazel woodland. Over centuries the landscape changed to open chalk downland. What you see today is about half of the original monument, some of the stones have fallen down, others have been carried away to be used for building or to repair farm tracks and over centuries visitors have added their damage too. It was quite normal to hire a hammer from the blacksmith in Amesbury and come to Stonehenge to chip bits off. As you can image this practice is no longer permitted!