Salisbury - High Street Gate
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Salisbury Cathedral - Britain's tallest spire at 404 feet
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Salisbury Cathedral - Exterior
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Salisbury Cathedral - West Front Entrance.
The cathedral was built between 1220 and 1258
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Salisbury Cathedral - Modern stained glass window incorporates glass from much earlier windows
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Salisbury Cathedral - View from the nave to the Prisoners of Conscience window at east end
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Salisbury Cathedral - Flags
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Salisbury Cathedral - Saints in the South Quire Aisle
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Salisbury Cathedral - Prisoners of Conscience window, by Gabrielle Loire, 1980.
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Salisbury Cathedral - Amnesty International candle in the Trinity Chapel. I was surprised to find Amnesty candles in every church I visited.
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Salisbury Cathedral - North Transept
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Salisbury Cathedral - Cloister Walk
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Salisbury Cathedral - View into the cloister garth
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Salisbury Cathedral - View of the spire from St. John's Street
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Salisbury Cathedral - Close Wall on Exeter Street
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Salisbury Cathedral - St. Ann's Gate
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Salisbury - River Avon
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Stonehenge!
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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge - National Trust open space
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Stonehenge - View from the footpath to the parking lot and across the road to Stonehenge itself
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Hiking in the National Trust open space
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Cursus Barrows - Bronze Age burial mounds in National Trust land
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Hiking in National Trust open space - Cowhenge?
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Hiking in National Trust open space - camera shy sheep
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Hiking in National Trust open space - sheephenge!
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Hiking in National Trust open space
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Hiking in National Trust open space - New King Barrows in the distance
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Hiking in National Trust open space - Save a Sheep!
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On the trail to Avebury Henge and Village - watch out for sheep poo!
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Avebury Henge - the Outer Circle
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Avebury Village from the Outer Circle
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Avebury Countryside - view from the Outer Circle trail
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Avebury Countryside - view from the Outer Circle trail
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Avebury Countryside - view from the Outer Circle trail
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Avebury Village - view from the Outer Circle trail
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Looking back over the north-east(ish?) side of the Outer Circle, a bank and ditch circle
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Avebury stones along the north side of the Outer Circle
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Avebury Manor - a "much-altered house of monastic origin...from the early 16th century, with notable Queen Anne alterations and Edwardian renovation."
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Avebury Manor Gardens - dahlias as big as my head!
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Avebury Manor Garden - though planted in a much more ordered manner, the gardens here had many of the same plants I do...buddleia, roses, hydrangeas, dahilas and lavender.
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Avebury Manor Garden - Red echinacea and English bees
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Avebury Manor Garden - topiary garden
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Avebury Manor Garden - Warning signs always catch my eye...so dramatic!
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Avebury St. James churchyard
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Avebury St. James Church - stained glass windows
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Avebury St. James Church - stained glass
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Avebury St. James Churchyard
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Avebury St. James Church - estimates date the oldest parts of the church to approx 1000 ad.
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An afternoon snack in the heritage site tea room, which quickly became a habit on my trip.
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Avebury Henge, the Outer Circle ditch and bank
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Avebury Henge resident. :)
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Silbury Hill - just south of Avebury, the largest man-made "earthen mound" in Europe, dates from the Neolithic period. A hill of unknown purpose!
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Old Sarum - Iron Age ramparts and ditch probably date to 400 bc.
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Old Sarum - Remains of the Courtyard House, probably the residence of Bishop Roger, in the early 1100's.
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Old Sarum - Looking out from the Courtyard House remains over the foundation of the cathedral. In 1220, this cathedral was replaced by the cathedral in Salisbury
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Old Sarum - remains of the keep and postern tower
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Old Sarum - On the ramparts
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Old Sarum - looking out towards Salisbury Cathedral
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