Avebury lies in the heart of the Wiltshire Downs just west of Marlborough - the most ancient borough in England. Avebury is ninety miles west of London and twenty miles north of Stonehenge. It contains the largest known stone ring in the world - though there is no proof. Older than the more famous Stonehenge, and for many visitors far more spectacular, the multiple rings of Avebury are cloaked with mysteries which archaeologists have only begun to unravel.
Some people believe there is an exterrestrial link.
The village of Avebury in Wiltshire has given its name to one of the greatest stone circles in the British Isles. Similar to Stonehenge and many other megalithic monuments in the British Isles, Avebury is a composite construction that was added to and altered during several periods. Just inside the ditch, which was clearly not used for defensive purposes, lies a grand circle of massive and irregular sarsen stones enclosing approximately 28 acres of land. The construction of the Avebury complex must have required enormous efforts on the part of the local inhabitants. The sarsen stones, ranging in height from nine to over twenty feet and weighing as much as 40 tons, were first hewn from bedrock and then dragged or sledded a distance of nearly two miles from their quarry site.