Stonehenge is definitely the top of many visitors bucket lists, of things to see. So we created a helpful guide when visiting Stonehenge from Glastonbury. Using our taxi tour service.
Visit Stonehenge, which is located some 44 - 50 miles away from Glastonbury, depending on the route you take. Both ways are similar in time, around 1 hr and 10 minutes, traffic dependant.
Many choose to stop on the way to Glastonbury from Heathrow because it's en route.
A good guide is around 2 hours, if you are taking the shuttle bus to visit stonehenge from the visitor centre to the stones. This runs every few minutes, if you decide to walk to the stones it takes around 25-45 minutes depending on your walking pace. So extra time will be needed.
It is highly recommended that you book tickets in advance visiting Stonehenge from Glastonbury and pick a time slot. This will avoid disappointment and waiting on the day. Click on the button below for current prices and entry times to visit Stonehenge.
Standard entrance tickets only allow you to view the stone circle from afar, behind a rope.
If you wish to book to walk amongst the stones when visiting Stonehenge from Glastonbury, this has to be booked in advance, very early in the morning or later in the afternoon. Book special tickets on the button link below.
We allow 4.5 hrs in total, 2.5 hrs driving and 2 hours for visiting Stonehenge from Glastonbury. Maggs Travel can accommodate 4 - 8 passengers on our Stonehenge taxi tours.
Minibus Taxi (8 passengers) or Executive saloon Car (4 passengers) See prices.
Please click on the link below for current 1/2 day prices to Stonehenge. Of course you have the option to stay longer or extended your tour to Avebury Stones only another 40 minutes drive.
Now take a breath... Stonehenge is estimated to have taken 1500 years to build ! Think about that just for a moment. Again it's estimated to be built a 1000 years before the great pyramids in Egypt, around 2500 BC !
Our ancestors at the time didn't have wheels or metal work. Maybe we are told a bow and arrow, flint knives, spears and fire.
So why take on a massive project of building Stonehenge over a 1000 years. It's like starting a building in Viking times, through William the conqueror in 1066 and only finishing now in 2024.
Plus, and I personally can confirm this, (After taking a professor of astronomy on a tour to Stonehenge) the site is perfectly aligned in the direction of the sunrise of the summer solstice and the sunset of the winter solstice. Also Stonehenge's latitude to the Great Pyramid and Equator is perfect.
Remember they only had flint as a tool ! The mind boggles and Stonehenge asks more questions than it answers.
On top of that within a couple of miles of the site is more than 400 burial mounds, called "barrows". It was very important it seems to be there, even after death.
So should you visit Stonehenge ? .... 100% !
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