Don't forget to see the Salisbury Cathedral. It's very close by. It has the oldest working clock and a copy of the Magna Carta on display. The cathedral is gigantic and beautiful. It's almost within eyesight of Stone Henge.
For "copy" read "one of the four surviving copies made in the 1200s." Well worth seeing. ...and Salisbury Cathedral is beautiful; probably my favorite English Cathedral.
I live about 1/2 hour from Stone Henge, there are a few places on the main A303 that runs past it, where you can get some great views of the stones without even going in if you are passing. When I was a kid, you could walk in and around the stones which is a very lasting memory for me. You are so much better off going off season, it’s more atmospheric, and less touristy.
When I was there in 1982, there were ropes around the stones and I was disappointed, but still in awe of the massiveness. (And the “tourist center” was merely some toilets). I wonder when the ropes were added.
Yes, the one and only time I went there was as a child in the early 70s. In a dusty box in some random family member's loft are black and white Polaroid photos of us all sitting on the stones, pretending to push them over, and all kinds of other daft antics. Of course all of that was done for free and on a whim on the way home from a holiday in Devon. The good old days!
As someone who lives in the south west and drives past Stonehenge (fairly) frequently, a personal "don't" is don't slow down when you're driving past the site on the main road. If you want to look at it, visit the site properly! The main reason the traffic is so bad around there is because people slow right down to look at it.
There is a wasteland around Stonehenge. With the money collected for nothing they could add more lanes to that part of the road. Stonehenge belongs to no one in our time so the public owns it just as much as those who capitalize on it.
@@mastertechnician3372 It is not wasteland, it is farm land and one of the reasons for not expanding the roads is the area there has more archeology to be discoverd. its a protected world heratige site!!!
Stonehenge is awesome 😎 and I enjoyed it very much. But just a mile away is woodhenge you can walk there from Stonehenge. And you can walk all around that without any restrictions. 😉 enjoy 😊
When I was there in September, I was surprised to see all the sheep grazing in the fields next to Stonehenge. It added more quaintness and charm to the setting.
Avebury is a much better ace to visit as it's free and you can touch the stones,I love the way you have to point out that there is nothing there lol As a Druid I went for the Autumn Equinox and performed a ritual inside the stones,we walked towards it and it appeared out of the mist and then when we left the mist closed behind it,very spooky
Also you can walk from the visitor centre for free and not pay the £20... There are also some nice Iron Age Earth Works you'd miss if you got the shuttle.
When my brother and I were small we visited Stonehenge with our family from the US. My little brother is a comedian and a half and was loudly complaining that we had to stay so far away from the actual stones that they very well might just be a hologram. He had tourists from all over the world absolutely scream laughing at his conspiracy theories to the point that I’m fairly certain one sweet lady peed her pants. To this day I equate Stonehenge with holograms and hysteria ♥️
I miss what stonehenge used to be before it became a unesco heritage site. Growing up in the 80's, we drove back and forth between London and my grandparents farm in Devon. We would stop for a wee break at stonehenge. There wasn't a parking lot I was aware of. We would go wee in the bushes and walk around and touch the stones. I wrote my name on it in pencil crayon when I was about 5 years old. No one told you what it was or how old it was. My parents didn't know. It was left to the imagination and it felt big. Not physically big, but I mean like I was part of something bigger that I couldn't put into words.
Went to Stonehenge years ago & are planning another visit. Thanks for the information. Many changes since our previous visit. Yes, everybody should try to go off-season if at all possible. We visited in November and it was great!
There is a way to see Stonehenge for free. You just have to walk there instead of taking the bus but you don't get as close though. When you get there just walk past the ticket booths and you will see a path leading to the road the buses take. You will see a lot of people walking up there. It is a 15-20 min walk and you get really close but there is a fence and you can't get closer (which you can't anyways even paying)
I was there in April and took the inner circle tour by premiere tours. I had always dreamed of seeing Stonehenge due to some unusual connections. I did have a tear or two when I first saw it coming over the horizon.Will have plans to visit again in the future. I love history and archeology it was in aw seeing the formation. I am a history and archeology buff and I did notice some incredible similarities of the huts to the Cherokee tribe huts on display in Oklahoma add a living history museum. I also noticed a lot of tools and other items of daily living. If both museums are accurate it would lend credibility to the idea that civilizations were in contact with each other well before history experts suggest.
Mark, another thing with the highway (A303), is that it gets jammed for about 5 miles either way around the stones, not just the junction. As people slow down to look at them as well
I didn't know there was another stonehenge! I've neve learned about it. Neat. My family never talked about stonehenge , it's kinda up there with the dinosaurs thing. They don't believe dinosaurs were real.
Things don't always get better with time, I'm afraid. My college friends had memorable stories of visiting Stonehenge in the 1960s and smoking dope while sitting around against the rocks. A historically more realistic experience, that . . .
@Club Soda: Not really, the 1960s are "only" 50 years ago. If you were born in 1950 . . . you could have been at Stonehenge in the 60s. Or Woodstock (anniversary coming up soon) . . . or Hue (hopefully not).
@@QED_ I'm 57, and I remember groovin' on the Beach Boys, playing in the sand at Venice beach/Muscle beach. Until one day in '64 these new dudes came along that were even more fun, the Beatles. We're not that old!
Quite right on the half-day, went with a friend from London, and matched it up with a small aviation meetup / show that we happened across, and a great meal at a pub. One of the nicest days out I’ve had in England.
Summer 1983. I visited Stone Henge. Objected with great volume within my tone that I must pay to visit Stone Henge. I certainly made a spectacle of myself right there and then. What came over me? i do not know. Completely out of character for me. however, within several seconds i readjusted myself. paid my dept. and was granted permission to go and have a look at Stone Henge. Here is what happened next. Standing by myself in the position of facing the highway, with Stone Henge between myself and the Highway. I began to feel a tingling sensation in my back. not painful in any way at all. almost as if something was touching me. It began to grow stronger and stronger i could feel it begin to penetrate inside of me without feeling painful or uncomfortable. After 15 or 20 seconds I had had enough as it was growing stronger and stronger. i could feel myself becoming a little fearful and nervous. So, i decided to move. The moment I moved. within that second of movement. It ceased. it was gone. After 5 seconds i began to feel a little disappointed that it had stopped. I think that i wanted it to begin again, I felt a little fascinated with this experience and i wanted control over it. I sensed that something very special had just happened. however. Now I need to admit that I could sense someone standing next to me, on my left at my 9-o clock position. But there was no person to see. i then heard a male voice speak these words. Stone Henge is an instrument that we use. it measures the level of intelligence and civilization of this world on this planet. Then there was a pause, and everything seemed back to normal. though i am slightly embarrassed to admit that tears seemed to be rolling down my face. And then another voice that sounded different than the previous voice, spoke these words. The Universe is teaming with life. ..and that's that. The remainder of the day was completely uneventful. Summer 1991 2130 hours i witnessed a very close UFO in Aves burry with two other people claiming to be seeing the same thing in the sky the I could see. 1992 also in Aves burry 2300 ish hours. a friend and I witnessed two glowing luminescent football sized globe type objects moving about close to the ground in a field next to the road. I pointed a pen light at them. They moved off immediately very quickly in opposite direction to each other and simply just vanished. i estimate at about 400mph. This is the first time that i share this experience with any people. i have nothing to gain from this comment report..
We did a guided trip Windsor, Stone Hedge and Bath. Of course we didn't have enough time to see the little houses and museum. Good info to do next time. Thank you guys+
Hello my friend thank you for sharing your lovely adventure with us and for sharing your information we are going to be be visiting tomorrow and we are looking forward to seeing what you saw many thanks once again and welcome to our UA-cam family love and light Sarah and Glenn
Double-check that you're booking for the day of the week you think. We were caught by surprise when we showed up and found that we had booked the following day instead of that day. Luckily we were in way-off season so they moved our tickets. The thing that caught us was that the online booking calendar started each week with Monday instead of Sunday. Our parochial selves had never seen a calendar that started each week on Monday.
Word. The traffic is absolutely diabolical. Like it's some of the worst traffic you'll come across anywhere in the UK. If you want to go to Dorset or Devon in the summer from where i live in Surrey, you're effectively forced to go on a single carriageway and it ABSOLUTELY BLOWS HOLY CHRIST.
yeah, my first couple visits were in summer and it was nuts with the traffic. And you have to pay attention driving that road as well as the people on the other direction are paying attention to stonehenge nad not the road... so there are few swerves here and there.
It's not just the summer months, i've seen traffic jams along there throughout the year. It's one of the main roads between London and the south west and has needed to be upgraded for at least the last 30 years.
Honestly, there are better places to visit. Having to stay so far back from the stones made me realize that we wasted a lot of time traveling there. The prices to get close are ridiculously expensive. Not trying to be salty, but it’s one of those touristy places with a large crowd.
I went there on a bus tour from London ....I kept walking around the stones ....loved the energy ! 2 hours goes by FAST so I missed out on the museum ! Want to go back !
Went there november 2018 (pretty cold but sunny), didn't know about the museum, despite going with a tour company. Four hours both ways from victoria. Stones smaller than expected.
Hi if we go on a private car to stonehedge where can we park? We just want to take few pictures or selfie of the stones...or walk around but don't want to go to their exhibit or museums will that be free or we needed to get tickets to wander near the stones?
We took a coach tour from the hotel in London in the late '80's. There was a cyclone fence around the stones and our pictures reflect the ugly fence. Still, very cool.
Wolter why aren't you doing tours?? We took Mad Max Tours to Stonehenge, Avebury, Lacock and Castle Combe at the end of March! It was lovely but if you had been the tour guide that would have been amazing! lol
I don’t know how this keep happening but every time I book a trip a video of yours about my destination seems to pop up on my feed 😂 I’m very excited for this one now, though!
Stay in Bristol or Bath then drive to all the tourist places. Glastonbury, Wells, Bath, Stonehenge, Bristol, Cardiff, Salisbury and Exeter are all within driving distance. All worth a visit.
Go to the circle at Avebury instead. You don't need tickets, you can get right into the circle, and there's a cute little town right in the middle of it.
Wolters World: Please say something about the crumbled crust of the stone appearing at 0:06. The body inside the crust is brown, a color different from that of the stone. The brown body might be a hollow metal box. If so, then it should tell us that all the other stones were built in the same way: cement smeared over a box. They were built right where they have been standing ever since, they were not quarried at remote mountains, never transported for long distances.
@@dave928 : If it is concrete, then all the stones could have been concrete also. The concrete idea easily explains why the surface of some stones is rough and some have scooping marks, and why some were cut into brick-like stones, why no transportation of heavy stones happened, why no lifting of heavy stones to the top of other vertical stones happened either. Ancient people were able to build small bricks, which in turn were "glued" together to build walls. Of course the same technique would enable them to build huge stones and huge bricks. The "glue" used was a kind of cement which solidified into concrete. A large enough amount of the cement would make a large stone.
Stonehenge was privately owned. It’s just over 100 years since Cecil and Mary Chubb gave Stonehenge to the nation, between the 1950s and 60s most of it was “put back together”, We used to climb all over it when we were children in the 1950s.... it was just old Stones in a field... Now min’ charge is £19.0 each.......... don’t bother, just drive along the road and look at it.... Best visit Devizes and see Caen Hill Locks...or Salisbury Cathedral....
Just to add, If you get a tourist membership of English Heritage, it gives you half price entrance to buildings in Wales and Scotland. Not all buildings though, as some are run by the National Trust. Stonehenge is jointly run by EH and NT. Most historic houses are National trust, and castles by English Heritage.
The National Trust has reciprocal arrangements with organisations in several other countries. Canadians who are members of National Trust for Canada and Americans who are members of Royal Oak Foundation receive the essential benefits of NT membership, which should prove good value for money if you visit a few places they own (and you can use them at home too!)
Thanks Mark - great overview ! Now I really want to see it :) Could you add info on the cost of the private tour that takes you right up to the stones? Also, I see you use the Sony a6000 for vlogging; I have that camera too, so I was wondering if you also use an external microphone, or is the audio just from the built in mike?
There is a replica of Stonehenge in the closest town to my summer camp, so each year I’ve been I see it driving by. It’s in Ingram, TX, a really small town in the Hill country. I still want to go to the real one though.😊
Hi Mark. I got a few questions for you nothing to do with Stonehenge. Would you mind telling me why you lived in Lithuania. What's so good about it. I am here for 3 days. Been to kaunas and Vilnius and there wasnt an awful lot to see not spectacular at least compared to other European cities I have been to. Dont get me wrong it wasnt awful but I dont think I would go back again unless you have been to other parts in Lithuania that you think are worth visiting.
When I went a couple years ago, I wish I had visited the Visitor Center first. It gives a lot more context to what you will see, such as the aerial shape before you see it close up. That way it doesn't look just like a pile of rocks. Also they had good pasties there. I am going on another tour that includes Stonehenge in July so I am looking forward to seeing it again!
Yeah. We saw people totally skip it to go to the bus then we saw them later and they had tons of questions about all the things they would have known if they went to the visitor centre
I had one of the private tours for Stonehenge, it was slightly anticlimactic. We had to be there by 5am so we wouldnt be Inside when they open and they have a security guard come in with you as you are not allowed to touch the rocks due to a rare lichen that grows on them (and probably so we don't cause damage to them) . All in all it was alright but personally I wouldn't spend the extra money on going up to them.
That £20+ a person basically gets you a bus ride one mile down the road and slightly closer looks at the stones. My mom and I walked it for free. The walk was easy and refreshing and we made it a loop by starting on the road and ending along the footpath that can allow you a short alternate route through a small, fenced off wooded area. You are further from the stones behind a short fence, but we went in fall and we had enough breaks in the crowds to get clear shots of the monument. You are able to touch the stones at nearby Avebury and the crowds are much smaller.
If you want things to do near Stonehenge, the nearby city of Salisbury is the way to go; much more interesting than Stonehenge itself and has so much to explore!
Stonehenge is free to National Trust members, the car park is free to members too, The national trust do a membership scheme for Americans called Royal Oak which also covers The national trust for Scotland. There are other English heritage sites that are owned by The National Trust
English heritage is worth it when a huge chunk of your membership is paid off by just visiting Stonehenge alone. An adult member can take 6 kids for free. Also not far from stone henge is old wardour castle which is stunning!
Mark, we toured Scotland a few years ago by car. It was amazing. I was just wondering if you guys pay the money for an automatic car or if you and your wife go all the way with the manual gear box. One of the thrills, in my opinion, of visiting the UK is driving there. Love your vids. Keep up the great work. Cheers.
Interesting little story from when my auntie went to visit. She took some pictures of stone henge. After she had them printed them off, there was a weird person in the background wearing some sort of old fashioned clothing. And no, they werent there when the pic was taken. That was 2 years ago, we are all just as confused and interested in what it was and what happened.
Love the video but I think you should've mentioned that Pagans and Druids still consider it an extremely sacred spiritual site and still use it for rituals and worship today. We understand why it's an interesting destination people want to visit but please respect it as if it was any other church, cathedral, mosque etc. ⭐
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You can get into the stones during Summer Solstice night. Which is pretty cool actually.
Don't forget to see the Salisbury Cathedral. It's very close by. It has the oldest working clock and a copy of the Magna Carta on display. The cathedral is gigantic and beautiful. It's almost within eyesight of Stone Henge.
*Insert Russian Accent* 123 metres tall :D
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For "copy" read "one of the four surviving copies made in the 1200s." Well worth seeing. ...and Salisbury Cathedral is beautiful; probably my favorite English Cathedral.
I live about 1/2 hour from Stone Henge, there are a few places on the main A303 that runs past it, where you can get some great views of the stones without even going in if you are passing. When I was a kid, you could walk in and around the stones which is a very lasting memory for me. You are so much better off going off season, it’s more atmospheric, and less touristy.
On my first visitl there were no restrictions, no visitor center, no tickets. Just the stones in a lonely field. That wa back in the early 70s.
that is cool
When I was there in 1982, there were ropes around the stones and I was disappointed, but still in awe of the massiveness. (And the “tourist center” was merely some toilets). I wonder when the ropes were added.
Yes, the one and only time I went there was as a child in the early 70s. In a dusty box in some random family member's loft are black and white Polaroid photos of us all sitting on the stones, pretending to push them over, and all kinds of other daft antics. Of course all of that was done for free and on a whim on the way home from a holiday in Devon. The good old days!
Daddy Sage Way back in the 70s !! That's when I was born am I that old lol .
and ever since then, Stonehenge became business...
As someone who lives in the south west and drives past Stonehenge (fairly) frequently, a personal "don't" is don't slow down when you're driving past the site on the main road. If you want to look at it, visit the site properly! The main reason the traffic is so bad around there is because people slow right down to look at it.
So true. Snails pace :)
Wolters World Absolutely! :) thanks for the reply.
There is a wasteland around Stonehenge. With the money collected for nothing they could add more lanes to that part of the road. Stonehenge belongs to no one in our time so the public owns it just as much as those who capitalize on it.
@@mastertechnician3372 It is not wasteland, it is farm land and one of the reasons for not expanding the roads is the area there has more archeology to be discoverd. its a protected world heratige site!!!
Stonehenge is awesome 😎 and I enjoyed it very much. But just a mile away is woodhenge you can walk there from Stonehenge. And you can walk all around that without any restrictions. 😉 enjoy 😊
1. Don't push it over
2. No seriously, don't push it over, they're like dominoes.
This is true :)
Where do you think they invented domino runs? 😉
I love this comment for so many reasons. 🥰
TAO TAO cheers.
When I was there in September, I was surprised to see all the sheep grazing in the fields next to Stonehenge. It added more quaintness and charm to the setting.
yeah and if you do the walk to and from it really is an enchanting jaunt
Your son is gonna be such a little heartbreaker when he grows up.😍
Avebury is a much better ace to visit as it's free and you can touch the stones,I love the way you have to point out that there is nothing there lol
As a Druid I went for the Autumn Equinox and performed a ritual inside the stones,we walked towards it and it appeared out of the mist and then when we left the mist closed behind it,very spooky
Really don't think bother going, driven past it when I was working but that's it. Would say your better seeing one of the UKs many castles.
Also you can walk from the visitor centre for free and not pay the £20... There are also some nice Iron Age Earth Works you'd miss if you got the shuttle.
The nearby city of Salisbury is way more interesting in my opinion; THAT is worth visiting, not some overpriced pile of stones!
When my brother and I were small we visited Stonehenge with our family from the US. My little brother is a comedian and a half and was loudly complaining that we had to stay so far away from the actual stones that they very well might just be a hologram. He had tourists from all over the world absolutely scream laughing at his conspiracy theories to the point that I’m fairly certain one sweet lady peed her pants.
To this day I equate Stonehenge with holograms and hysteria ♥️
You are so jolly! like the round up.
Very informative.
Cheers
Also, don't try to bring one of the stones home as a souvenir.
That extra baggage charge on the plane is just too much.
During Victorian times 1839-1901 they would rent you a hammer so you could take a piece home with you. Unthinkable today eh
you are so right! this is what you would be living with:
www.theyfly.com/Pyramids_Stonehenge.htm
Wow. That was an astronomical amount of advice in such a short video. Excellent. 👍
Thanks Tosh.
I miss what stonehenge used to be before it became a unesco heritage site. Growing up in the 80's, we drove back and forth between London and my grandparents farm in Devon. We would stop for a wee break at stonehenge. There wasn't a parking lot I was aware of. We would go wee in the bushes and walk around and touch the stones. I wrote my name on it in pencil crayon when I was about 5 years old. No one told you what it was or how old it was. My parents didn't know. It was left to the imagination and it felt big. Not physically big, but I mean like I was part of something bigger that I couldn't put into words.
I’m on a coach trip heading there now watching this 😊
How do they move the stones for daylight savings time?
they're all on a big motorized plate.
There's a specialist team that does it during the night when the henge is closed to visitors
No need... just shift the Sun a bit.
I thought this was one of the most amazing things I've seen in person. A great human achievement.
The best informative and entertaining video! Thanks Wolters World.
Went to Stonehenge years ago & are planning another visit. Thanks for the information. Many changes since our previous visit. Yes, everybody should try to go off-season if at all possible. We visited in November and it was great!
I didn’t realise you need tickets for Stonehenge and I’m from the Uk 😂
Yep.
Same here. I guess it never interested me.
There is a way to see Stonehenge for free. You just have to walk there instead of taking the bus but you don't get as close though. When you get there just walk past the ticket booths and you will see a path leading to the road the buses take. You will see a lot of people walking up there. It is a 15-20 min walk and you get really close but there is a fence and you can't get closer (which you can't anyways even paying)
I went there on a year 5 school trip and I don’t think we had to buy tickets. Maybe it’s a new idea
I was there on Wednesday, i always get there for opening and have never bothered to pre-book as off season it has never been an issue.
I was there in April and took the inner circle tour by premiere tours. I had always dreamed of seeing Stonehenge due to some unusual connections. I did have a tear or two when I first saw it coming over the horizon.Will have plans to visit again in the future. I love history and archeology it was in aw seeing the formation.
I am a history and archeology buff and I did notice some incredible similarities of the huts to the Cherokee tribe huts on display in Oklahoma add a living history museum. I also noticed a lot of tools and other items of daily living. If both museums are accurate it would lend credibility to the idea that civilizations were in contact with each other well before history experts suggest.
Mark, another thing with the highway (A303), is that it gets jammed for about 5 miles either way around the stones, not just the junction. As people slow down to look at them as well
You can party among the stones all night with thousands of people during the annual summer solstice festival
My dad went there in 2000 and my ancestors are from that region, he said it felt very spiritual and almost like he had been there before.
Lol
I’m planning on going and this video was so helpful I think I know what to expect now thanks!
I didn't know there was another stonehenge! I've neve learned about it. Neat. My family never talked about stonehenge , it's kinda up there with the dinosaurs thing. They don't believe dinosaurs were real.
Things don't always get better with time, I'm afraid. My college friends had memorable stories of visiting Stonehenge in the 1960s and smoking dope while sitting around against the rocks. A historically more realistic experience, that . . .
@Club Soda: Not really, the 1960s are "only" 50 years ago. If you were born in 1950 . . . you could have been at Stonehenge in the 60s. Or Woodstock (anniversary coming up soon) . . . or Hue (hopefully not).
@@QED_ I'm 57, and I remember groovin' on the Beach Boys, playing in the sand at Venice beach/Muscle beach. Until one day in '64 these new dudes came along that were even more fun, the Beatles. We're not that old!
@Ernest Misko: California is another one of those things . . . that is not what it used to be. I remember when it was reliably Republican (!)
A great video celebrating one of the worlds great sites by an enthusiastic American tour guide.
We visited in October 2017 and had no wait. We enjoyed it but it was soooo windy. Glad we went. It was awesome.
I still have a photo of me sitting on one of the stones, plus the guide book I bought, on my first visit over 50 years ago.
Quite right on the half-day, went with a friend from London, and matched it up with a small aviation meetup / show that we happened across, and a great meal at a pub. One of the nicest days out I’ve had in England.
Great advice for those visiting Stonehenge-your vid a must see!
Summer 1983. I visited Stone Henge. Objected with great volume within my tone that I must pay to visit Stone Henge. I certainly made a spectacle of myself right there and then. What came over me? i do not know. Completely out of character for me. however, within several seconds i readjusted myself. paid my dept. and was granted permission to go and have a look at Stone Henge. Here is what happened next. Standing by myself in the position of facing the highway, with Stone Henge between myself and the Highway. I began to feel a tingling sensation in my back. not painful in any way at all. almost as if something was touching me. It began to grow stronger and stronger i could feel it begin to penetrate inside of me without feeling painful or uncomfortable. After 15 or 20 seconds I had had enough as it was growing stronger and stronger. i could feel myself becoming a little fearful and nervous. So, i decided to move. The moment I moved. within that second of movement. It ceased. it was gone. After 5 seconds i began to feel a little disappointed that it had stopped. I think that i wanted it to begin again, I felt a little fascinated with this experience and i wanted control over it. I sensed that something very special had just happened. however. Now I need to admit that I could sense someone standing next to me, on my left at my 9-o clock position. But there was no person to see. i then heard a male voice speak these words. Stone Henge is an instrument that we use. it measures the level of intelligence and civilization of this world on this planet. Then there was a pause, and everything seemed back to normal. though i am slightly embarrassed to admit that tears seemed to be rolling down my face. And then another voice that sounded different than the previous voice, spoke these words. The Universe is teaming with life. ..and that's that. The remainder of the day was completely uneventful. Summer 1991 2130 hours i witnessed a very close UFO in Aves burry with two other people claiming to be seeing the same thing in the sky the I could see. 1992 also in Aves burry 2300 ish hours. a friend and I witnessed two glowing luminescent football sized globe type objects moving about close to the ground in a field next to the road. I pointed a pen light at them. They moved off immediately very quickly in opposite direction to each other and simply just vanished. i estimate at about 400mph. This is the first time that i share this experience with any people. i have nothing to gain from this comment report..
Thx for the useful tips. We’re planning to go on the first week of October. Is it windy and cold?
We did a guided trip Windsor, Stone Hedge and Bath. Of course we didn't have enough time to see the little houses and museum. Good info to do next time. Thank you guys+
Edith U I did the same trip last year!
you are very welcome
Hello my friend thank you for sharing your lovely adventure with us and for sharing your information we are going to be be visiting tomorrow and we are looking forward to seeing what you saw many thanks once again and welcome to our UA-cam family love and light Sarah and Glenn
Stonehenge is absolutely worth going to once for the price. Nearby Avebury is free though, and you can walk among the stones.
Perfect timing, I'm going to be at Stonehenge this Friday!
Hey Mark, I really like this style of filming that you used in this video, it feels more intimate.
Very good video, we also visited in October and it wasn't crowded at all.
Please do a Georgia or Southeatern US vid! I loved your Savannah and Tybee Island videos!
Thank you for your feedbacks, lt was very helpful and informative! 🌹✨🌈
There are two stone circles in Ireland I would highly recommend: Kenmare (County Kerry) and Derrynataggart (County Cork).
Double-check that you're booking for the day of the week you think. We were caught by surprise when we showed up and found that we had booked the following day instead of that day. Luckily we were in way-off season so they moved our tickets. The thing that caught us was that the online booking calendar started each week with Monday instead of Sunday. Our parochial selves had never seen a calendar that started each week on Monday.
I live nearby and the traffic is horrendous during the summer months. Nice to see it being featured on this channel!
Word.
The traffic is absolutely diabolical.
Like it's some of the worst traffic you'll come across anywhere in the UK. If you want to go to Dorset or Devon in the summer from where i live in Surrey, you're effectively forced to go on a single carriageway and it ABSOLUTELY BLOWS HOLY CHRIST.
yeah, my first couple visits were in summer and it was nuts with the traffic. And you have to pay attention driving that road as well as the people on the other direction are paying attention to stonehenge nad not the road... so there are few swerves here and there.
@@Eric-sy1xu There are plans to upgrade the main road past the stones and along route to improve the traffic problems.
It's not just the summer months, i've seen traffic jams along there throughout the year. It's one of the main roads between London and the south west and has needed to be upgraded for at least the last 30 years.
Thanks mate, excellent video. Very useful 🤟🏻
Thanks Luka
Honestly, there are better places to visit. Having to stay so far back from the stones made me realize that we wasted a lot of time traveling there. The prices to get close are ridiculously expensive. Not trying to be salty, but it’s one of those touristy places with a large crowd.
I went there on a bus tour from London ....I kept walking around the stones ....loved the energy ! 2 hours goes by FAST so I missed out on the museum ! Want to go back !
Went there november 2018 (pretty cold but sunny), didn't know about the museum, despite going with a tour company. Four hours both ways from victoria. Stones smaller than expected.
Hi if we go on a private car to stonehedge where can we park? We just want to take few pictures or selfie of the stones...or walk around but don't want to go to their exhibit or museums will that be free or we needed to get tickets to wander near the stones?
A fantastic site.
We really enjoyed it
Hey, we were just there! We may have been there the same day. Great video, very informative.
thanks for sharing, this has surprised me.
We took a coach tour from the hotel in London in the late '80's. There was a cyclone fence around the stones and our pictures reflect the ugly fence. Still, very cool.
Wolter why aren't you doing tours?? We took Mad Max Tours to Stonehenge, Avebury, Lacock and Castle Combe at the end of March! It was lovely but if you had been the tour guide that would have been amazing! lol
Looking for a magical place to propose to my girlfriend. Think I might have found it! Thank you for posting this! Very informative
There's no accommodation near Stonehenge? The last time I checked there were five hotels in Amesbury - Both modern and "quaint".
I don’t know how this keep happening but every time I book a trip a video of yours about my destination seems to pop up on my feed 😂 I’m very excited for this one now, though!
Hi, please suggest an accomodation, motel or house to stay middle from Stonehenge, cathedral and museums other places. Thanks
Stay in Bristol or Bath then drive to all the tourist places. Glastonbury, Wells, Bath, Stonehenge, Bristol, Cardiff, Salisbury and Exeter are all within driving distance. All worth a visit.
The overseas pass paid for itself after just two English heritage locations so definitely worth it!!!!
Yep
Go to the circle at Avebury instead. You don't need tickets, you can get right into the circle, and there's a cute little town right in the middle of it.
Wolters World: Please say something about the crumbled crust of the stone appearing at 0:06. The body inside the crust is brown, a color different from that of the stone. The brown body might be a hollow metal box. If so, then it should tell us that all the other stones were built in the same way: cement smeared over a box. They were built right where they have been standing ever since, they were not quarried at remote mountains, never transported for long distances.
it's concrete. part of the restoration work so it doesn't fall apart.
@@dave928 : If it is concrete, then all the stones could have been concrete also. The concrete idea easily explains why the surface of some stones is rough and some have scooping marks, and why some were cut into brick-like stones, why no transportation of heavy stones happened, why no lifting of heavy stones to the top of other vertical stones happened either.
Ancient people were able to build small bricks, which in turn were "glued" together to build walls. Of course the same technique would enable them to build huge stones and huge bricks. The "glue" used was a kind of cement which solidified into concrete. A large enough amount of the cement would make a large stone.
I think your tinfoil hat might have a hole in it. Better go check.
@@dave928 Yes its a repair that was carried out in the early 1950s when a crack was found within a large cavity within the stone.
@@drinkingup2157 yes, i know.
The USS Nautilus in the New London-Groton area of Connecticut, New England, USA has those audio guides.
Just found this video series. Great stuff!
Stonehenge was privately owned. It’s just over 100 years since Cecil and Mary Chubb gave Stonehenge to the nation, between the 1950s and 60s most of it was “put back together”, We used to climb all over it when we were children in the 1950s.... it was just old Stones in a field...
Now min’ charge is £19.0 each.......... don’t bother, just drive along the road and look at it....
Best visit Devizes and see Caen Hill Locks...or Salisbury Cathedral....
Just to add, If you get a tourist membership of English Heritage, it gives you half price entrance to buildings in Wales and Scotland.
Not all buildings though, as some are run by the National Trust. Stonehenge is jointly run by EH and NT. Most historic houses are
National trust, and castles by English Heritage.
The National Trust has reciprocal arrangements with organisations in several other countries. Canadians who are members of National Trust for Canada and Americans who are members of Royal Oak Foundation receive the essential benefits of NT membership, which should prove good value for money if you visit a few places they own (and you can use them at home too!)
Thanks Mark - great overview ! Now I really want to see it :) Could you add info on the cost of the private tour that takes you right up to the stones? Also, I see you use the Sony a6000 for vlogging; I have that camera too, so I was wondering if you also use an external microphone, or is the audio just from the built in mike?
i bought the mic that goes on the top as the built in mic was not good enough
There is a replica of Stonehenge in the closest town to my summer camp, so each year I’ve been I see it driving by. It’s in Ingram, TX, a really small town in the Hill country. I still want to go to the real one though.😊
Very good video thanks for sharing :)
There are numerous sites like this around the UK, so just go an see those cause they are a lot less busy
As their t-shirts says "Stonehenge...Rocks"
Anyone notice that the apostrophe on the Don’t is in the wrong spot on the title for this video?
Hi Mark. I got a few questions for you nothing to do with Stonehenge. Would you mind telling me why you lived in Lithuania. What's so good about it. I am here for 3 days. Been to kaunas and Vilnius and there wasnt an awful lot to see not spectacular at least compared to other European cities I have been to. Dont get me wrong it wasnt awful but I dont think I would go back again unless you have been to other parts in Lithuania that you think are worth visiting.
When I went a couple years ago, I wish I had visited the Visitor Center first. It gives a lot more context to what you will see, such as the aerial shape before you see it close up. That way it doesn't look just like a pile of rocks. Also they had good pasties there. I am going on another tour that includes Stonehenge in July so I am looking forward to seeing it again!
Yeah. We saw people totally skip it to go to the bus then we saw them later and they had tons of questions about all the things they would have known if they went to the visitor centre
I've been to Avebury, but not Stonehenge. I LOVED Avebury! There's no admission charge, it's bigger, and you can actually wander among the stones.
Thank you sir.
I had one of the private tours for Stonehenge, it was slightly anticlimactic. We had to be there by 5am so we wouldnt be Inside when they open and they have a security guard come in with you as you are not allowed to touch the rocks due to a rare lichen that grows on them (and probably so we don't cause damage to them) . All in all it was alright but personally I wouldn't spend the extra money on going up to them.
Very informative. Thank you 👍
Selling tickets and setting opening hours for an open air site...must say that I'm impressed.
That £20+ a person basically gets you a bus ride one mile down the road and slightly closer looks at the stones. My mom and I walked it for free. The walk was easy and refreshing and we made it a loop by starting on the road and ending along the footpath that can allow you a short alternate route through a small, fenced off wooded area. You are further from the stones behind a short fence, but we went in fall and we had enough breaks in the crowds to get clear shots of the monument. You are able to touch the stones at nearby Avebury and the crowds are much smaller.
If you want things to do near Stonehenge, the nearby city of Salisbury is the way to go; much more interesting than Stonehenge itself and has so much to explore!
Parked up on the side of a lane nearby and flew my drone over so I got to see them for free :D
Stonehenge is free to National Trust members, the car park is free to members too, The national trust do a membership scheme for Americans called Royal Oak which also covers The national trust for Scotland. There are other English heritage sites that are owned by The National Trust
English heritage is worth it when a huge chunk of your membership is paid off by just visiting Stonehenge alone. An adult member can take 6 kids for free. Also not far from stone henge is old wardour castle which is stunning!
So useful. Tysm!
Mark.. do you do a guide on egypt if you do link me please thx
I have not yet sadly
@@woltersworld Do you know anyone that has.. there arent many good guides like yourself .. many wanta bees thx
Mark, we toured Scotland a few years ago by car. It was amazing. I was just wondering if you guys pay the money for an automatic car or if you and your wife go all the way with the manual gear box. One of the thrills, in my opinion, of visiting the UK is driving there. Love your vids. Keep up the great work. Cheers.
I was there today 8/8/8 was soo busy was fun i will go back with my kids next time
Interesting little story from when my auntie went to visit. She took some pictures of stone henge. After she had them printed them off, there was a weird person in the background wearing some sort of old fashioned clothing. And no, they werent there when the pic was taken. That was 2 years ago, we are all just as confused and interested in what it was and what happened.
I've always wanted to go there but haven't. Not sure why 😕 I'm only in Scotland.
Is there a commercial train or bus that takes me from London?
You can take a train from Waterloo Station to Salisbury and a bus from Salisbury to Stonehenge.
Where's the nearest Weatherspoons ?
Love the video but I think you should've mentioned that Pagans and Druids still consider it an extremely sacred spiritual site and still use it for rituals and worship today. We understand why it's an interesting destination people want to visit but please respect it as if it was any other church, cathedral, mosque etc. ⭐
I don't know about pre-booking, I did literally just go up to it and bought the tickets then and there. It wasn't in the summer though
Note; Stonehedge was dismantled and reconstructed in 1958 being cemented in place. They are not in the original positions.
Depends how you define "original positions". Some of the stones had fallen prior to the restoration and got put back in place.
Really enjoyed Avebury more than Stonehenge. Might not be as grand--but it's very intimate--you can get right up to them.
I’ve lived less than an hour away from Stonehenge my whole life and I’ve never been
I lived in one of the nearby villages for the first 14 years of my life I have yet to visit 😁
In my 32 years of living England I have still never been to Stonehenge and I don't know why.
Probably because you've not been past. It's worth it but don't bother with the shuttle you can get a similar, slightly further away one if you walk.