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Burial mounds in Wiltshire near Stonehenge

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One of the most ancient sites in Britain is about to be redeveloped.
Stonehenge is about to have a bypass, don't they do that to "weak heart's" ????? Say's a mate of mine Andy Milhench from Salisbury.
PS. he is a bottle collector. got loads of the buggers he say's
 
As a child I could ride my bike to Stonehenge sit on the stones for hours and never see a soul.
Now all of a sudden it needs a bypass or underpass ?
OK in 50yrs time it might need a decent toilet block instead of the portaloo type it has had since I can remember.
But to start destroying the national heritage around Stonehenge which I can assure you is some nice detecting land is bloody madness, That's England.
 
that they were going to fix it so that you couldn't even see it from the road, somehow. Don't know if that meant building a higher fence that you can't see through, or actually rerouting the road through that part of Salisbury Plain. I figured they were trying to keep people from taking pics and video from outside the fence, thereby avoiding paying to get in for the "official" tour.
I'd hoped it was just a rumour.... <img src="/metal/html/frown.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":(">
 
They are as far as i know actually going to hide the road underground so as you quite rightly said Stonehenge will for the first time in history be totally hidden.
Little tip to tourist's, From salisbury travel to Amesbury, go straight over the crossroad in Amesbury, you come to a big roundabout first left takes you to Stonehenge, but the second exit takes you to WOODHENGE it is half a mile up the road and is signposted on the left hand side. there is a picknick area, a pub just up the road, IT'S FREE, no fences you can go sit on it like I used to do as a kid on the other henge.
 
That the point of the bypass is to get views from the stones without lines of traffic spoiling it.
In my far distant youth I was part of a hippy group that lived a couple of hundred metres from the Stones. We sometimes used to wander down and sit amongst them at night. Now I'm old and (reasonably) respectable I live in fear that pictures from that era will emerge <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">.
Regards
Fred
ps I agree about the toilet facilities
 
If you ever went to any of the solstice hippy festivals in the field opposite the stones, my stepdad was the guy who used to sell the hotdogs and illegal booze near the entrance, his name is John Scott or Scotty,He took load's of photo's. <img src="/metal/html/super.gif" border=0 width=26 height=28 alt=":super"> <img src="/metal/html/blush.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":redface"> <img src="/metal/html/super.gif" border=0 width=26 height=28 alt=":super">
 
Richard, any idea when they'll start this project? I'd hoped to take the folks by there next spring, but if they'll be in the middle of construction I may drop that off the list of places to show them.
Sorry to hear this. Commercialization at its worst.
pat
 
I am not sure at the moment Pat, but I will keep a close eye on It.
I drove past the stones this morning and it all looked normal.
 
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