According to Explored Planet, Stonehenge is the 4th most overrated attarction in the world!

https://www.exploredplanet.com/view/the-worlds-most-overrated-tourist-attractions


Do YOU think Stonehenge is worth a visit?

 
Avebury is much much better to visit.  It feels so very atmospheric of the past, and it's spacious and does not feel crowded.  But don't tell everyone!

 
Agreed; never visited Stonehenge, driven past it quiet a few times and might stop one day.

 
...and Avebury has its own TV series, a blast from the past for those of us of a certain age:
https://youtu.be/SwT0wLnT7Rc?si=UAhk1c8xlnha-ksa

 
I went with my family back in the 1970s when you could walk around it more freely.  Certainly agree that Avebury has more to offer...and I do remember the HTV series set there.    Special mention too for the lesser known but not unimpressive stone circles at Stanton Drew in Somerset, which I think are the third largest in the country after Avebury and Stonehenge.

 

At Avebury you can also see the stones being reset twice a year - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154178800268586

 
School trip as a kid. Visited again a few years ago - via the public footpath. Too expensive for an 'official' visit.

Ambivalent. But would like to get my drone up there. Although that would be limited to the south of the stones as they are bisected by a No Fly Zone.

 
Avebury has a pub too.

 
So does Stanton Drew - The Druids Arms. 

 
I voted "have to see it once" based on experienced from long ago.  Visited yesterday with Lisa's nephew from Portland, Oregeon, and we came away with a very much more positive view than I had from my uninformed armchair.  I will still not be visiting frequently, but pleasantly delighted at the experience, and people-watching suggested to me that the other visitors were revelling in the experience - many in their own special ways.

 
One great merit of stonehenge, is the debunking of American conspiracy theories. A common one is that the earth has tilted upon its axis, and that the tilt is worsening. This is proved by the many persons who claim the sun now shines through previously shaded windows.
May be answered by "In England we have a very ancient monument (much older than america). The sun still rises in the same position, relative to the stones, as it has done for thousands of years"

 

This is good. Also looking forward to the long answer. :-)

Mark

 
Was posted to the Royal School of Artillery at Larkhill. Had never been to Stonehenge, rolled over in the morning and saw this thing poking out of the snow (remember that stuff) ain't it small. Well it was at that distance!

Being a typical drunken squaddy tended to be more interested in the "cultural" lure of the The Stones pub on the roundabout at Durrington.

Visits since, recommend looking at Woodhenge, especially if you have had a chance read about the context of the sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhenge. Would also not recommend paying the price of an official visit to Stonehenge if you have been there before, walk down the footpath from the bus stop at Larkhill. You only end up being about 10m further from the stones.

Personally I find the area more atmospheric in a cold damp drizzle, probably an ex-sqaddy affliction by time spent on Salisbury Plain Training Area.

 
Think it was just about my only visit to Stonehenge, as a small child, despite the presence of the roads, the setting, sun-baked, impressed. As did, at one point, the passage overhead, low, of a large moth-shaped jet-powered aircraft, surreally thunderously skysplittingly noisy. I think I was about 14 before I heard something that loud again (a Lightning whose pilot saw fit to do a close pass across a Pembrokeshire hill-top...)

Mark

 

Best way to avoid the crowds !  I got this from a light aircraft - followed by a hard 180° turn to clear Boscombe Down airspace.

 
Hate it !

A right royal pain in the *** when you have to drive along the A303, only to be faced with queuing traffic.  Why? because the delightful traveller in front of you has slowed down to 15mph while they gawp out the window at the magical marvel.  A picturesque rubber-necking you may call it.

The sooner the build a chuffin big hedge in front of it, the better, cause the tunnel is never going to happen ! 

[rant over]

 
... as some American visitor is reported to have asked, "Why on Earth did they build Stonehenge so close to the main road?"

CfN. 

 

And without a sufficient car park !

 

Classically illustrated on Thursday - with the traffic from London slowed down to a crawl as it approaches the henge, and traffic London-bound (which should be about the same volume) sparse and flowing freely.

All sorts of ideas for the road have been mooted in the past - has any thought been given to moving the henge to somewhere more convenient for tourists?  As I learned from the history panels, we have had the ability to move stones for several millennia ...

 
In 1927.

 

Probably the same chap who was appreciative of Windsor Castle being built so close to Heathrow!

 

I confess to being one of those happy to go past slowly.  Only adds a few minutes to the overall journey time for a rather special sight (and site). If it causes a delay long enough to worry about then an alternative route would probably be quicker.

 
Of all the bypass plans one of the best was a northern bypass near Larkhill and Bullford Camps which would have passed the new visitor centre which wasn't even thought of then. This was the 1980s when stretches of the A303 were being dualled which lasted for about 10 years then no more dualling.
I think the Army must have objected in case a tank thought the cars were a shooting gallery.

 
It was a bit silly building it so close  to the A303, causing all the distractions and tailbacks whilst people slow to look.

In all seriousness, I don’t get the hype. I definitely wouldn’t pay money to see them.

 

At great risk of annoying a couple of dozen 'Druids' who must surely possess protected characteristics that would stop this.

Also, being somebody whose knowledge of all things astronomical is pretty limited, would moving the stones have any impact on the solstice festivities?