Stonehenge is one of the UK's most important prehistoric monuments but it is currently surrounded by roads and its visitor facilities are inadequate for today’s needs, according to English Heritage, the institution that preserves and manages the site. This is why the Stonehenge Project has been created : in the future, roads will be removed or tunnelled and ploughed fields returned to open grassland. A new visitor centre will be built outside the World Heritage Site and there will be improved access through the Stonehenge World Heritage Site landscape. I do really hope the Project takes into account the main entrance to Stonehenge. As it is now, it is appalling (see photo 1). The first view you get of the monument is its worst side! I've heard visitors exclaiming 'how disappointing!' several times. Then they keep walking around the stone circle and their view changes radically. Especially when they've almost completed the circle. Just when you are about to leave, Stonehenge offers you its best side!(see photo 2) If the present entrance were to be 200 metres down the road, our first view of Stonehenge would be of the astonighingly beautiful monument that it is. EH people, please...move the entrance down the road as soon as possible! We deserve to see Stonehenge at its best for more than some last minute moments!
The weather today:
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