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Stonehenge freed - well, not quite
New visitor facilities planned for Stonehenge will be well away from the monument, enhancing our experience of the 'Sacred Landscape' which focusses on the monument. But they will require a road train to get low-mobility trippers to the site, and they STILL haven't worked out what to do with that main road...
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concrete bunker and other tourist facilities that have blighted the experience
of Britain's National Monument, Stonehenge, are to be removed, and a new
visitor centre built out of sight of the stones themselves. Discussions about
what to do with the roads around the momument are still in progress -
archaeologists, in particular, are sceptical about plans to put the A303 road
in a cutting or a tunnel, and surely there is a good case for diverting them
altogether from this prime example of Sacred Landscape - English Heritage have
published their plans for a £67.5m Visitor Centre, and these were approved on
July 10th by the same Salisbury District Council Committee that rejected the
same plans a year earlier. Its most controversial feature remains the 'Land
Train' to carry those visitors who are unwilling or unable to walk the distance
from the centre to the monument.
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