Wiltshire: Avebury, Silbury, West Kennet pre-historic history, White Horses. (World without Tourism)

White Horses, Stone Circles, Burial would you want to visit this stuff? .....well partly because it is our history but also because it takes you off the route that every tourist takes and shows you something “off the beaten track“ ! Wiltshire has many historic and prehistoric sites like Stonehenge but the area around Avebury is particularly interesting. Avebury itself has a large number of “standing stones“ and the circle of earthworks around the village is the largest in Europe - it was built 5500 years ago. Silbury Hill is just a mile away and is the largest man-made hill in Europe, built for we know not what, 3500 years ago. West Kennet Long Barrow is close by, just a 15 minute walk across the fields and is an impressive burial chamber - again 5500 years old. Wiltshire’s White Horses were carved into the chalk hillside - mostly 200-350 years ago usually to commemorate something or just to show off! The Devizes White Horse is the last to be cut - for the Millennium and the Uffin