WONDERS OF WILTSHIRE

Situated in England’s rural West Country, Wiltshire is made up of rivers, medieval towns and villages, high plains and rolling downs, topped with old drovers’ roads where you can walk for miles under wide-open skies. This verdant county encompasses numerous neolithic monuments, iron age hill forts and tumuli, the ancient burial mounds that dot the skyline all over the county.

Picture-perfect Cotswold manor houses, historic churches and rural pubs abound. You can spend hours relaxing on a riverbank, where the water is clear and fast-moving, with just the rustling of the wind in the willows and the occasional birdcall to punctuate the silence.

Despite the prevailing peace, some of Britain’s most iconic and best-loved visitor attractions are in Wiltshire, not least the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Stonehenge and Avebury. Built around 5,000 years ago, these prehistoric megaliths and stone circles on Salisbury Plain are shrouded in mystery to this day.

One of the most complete stone circles in existence