#witshire

[unteriors]

Horsebrook Park, Calne, Wiltshire.

[rherlotshadow]

Travellers gathering on the Wiltshire Ridgeway, before the summer solstice.

[englishcottagedreams]

(via Wiltshire thatch house, 1987 | Somewhere west of Salisbury by Janette Asche | Flickr)

[richwall101]

Salisbury Cathedral by Richard Walker Via Flickr: Salisbury Cathedral West Front seen through the trees around the famous Cathedral Close

[showbizgossips-blog]

Prince Charles Enjoys a Vodka During a visit to the Ramsbury Distillery in Wiltshire

[englishcottagedreams]

(via Thatched cottage | Reybridge, Wilts | Sarah Eve Armstrong | Flickr)

[ap-arthistory-blog]

Stonehenge, c. 21,000 B.C; Wiltshire, England.

Perhaps took a thousand years to build, gradually redeveloped by each succeeding generation

Post-and-lintel building; lintels grooved in place by the mortise-and-tenon system of construction

Large megaliths in center are over 20 feet tall and form a horseshoe surrouding a central flat zone

Ring of megaliths, originally all united by lintels, surrounds central horseshoe

Some stones over 50 tons

Hundreds of smaller stones of unknown purpose placed around monument

Some stones imported from over 200 miles away

Generally thought to be oriented toward sunrise on the longest day of the year; may also predict eclipses

One of many henge in southern England; the most recently discovered in July 2009, called Bluehenge.