Wiltshire experiences
Salisbury activities, tours, classes, and other experiences to move your vacation beyond sightseeing
Salisbury activities, tours, classes, and other experiences to move your vacation beyond sightseeing
You can actually enter the stone circle before and after hours—if you book ahead
Take a half-hour helicopter ride over the ancient site of Stonehenge
Take a tandem skydive over the Salisbury Plain—Salisbury, Old Sarum, Stonehenge, and more
Tour the traditional Victorian-era Wadworth brewery in Devizes
The first attempt to date Stonehenge was made in 1720 by the brand new Astronomer Royal, Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who used magnetic deviation and the position of the rising sun to estimate the stone circle's age at 460 BC. He was only off by about 2,000 years.