Stanton Drew Stone Circles

It’s likely that you’ll have heard of Stonehenge and Avebury, but Stanton Drew Stone circle? Not quite so famous. Which is a shame because it’s just on our doorstep and very pretty indeed.
We parked just behind the pub (The Druid’s Arms — a pertinent name!)
and rambled into the fields, passing the £1 honesty box and paying our toll. The stone circle is owned by English Heritage, but the car park and stones themselves do need a bit of upkeep I suppose. You can grab a leaflet about the history of the place on the way through the kissing gate (how very English).
It’s dodge-​the-​sheep-​poo into the field, and when we were there were certainly more sheep than people (so leave your canine friends at home). The stones themselves, monolothic structures, shaped into a circle with one flat horizontal rock in the middle. Fancy a picnic? This is a great place to lay out the table cloth in the summer (again, dodge the droppings though!)
All in all, it takes less than 20 mins to wander around the whole site and is actually a larger site than Stonehenge (although the stones themselves are smaller). However, the pub’s a nice one and there’s a pretty church nearby — so you could easily spend a Sunday afternoon out in the area.