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Place name County Entry Source ALTON, or Alveton Staffordshire Stonehenge, a pagoda 95 feet high, and a Gothic temple commanding an extensive view. The ruins of a castle of the De Verdons Imperial Amesbury Wiltshire Avon, 5936 ac., pop. 1127; P.O., T.O.; contains the seat of A. Abbey . Market-day, Friday . Stonehenge is 2 miles W. of Amesbury. Bartholomew AMESBURY Wiltshire Stonehenge and the Cursus are only 1¼ mile beyond this hill; and several other ancient monuments are near. A monastery Imperial ARTHUR'S STONE Glamorgan sunk in a hollow crowded with rough stones. It ranks in the same class of great antiquities as Stonehenge. See Cefn-Bryn. Imperial ASHDOWN PARK Berkshire Stonehenge and Avebury, lie on the turf around the house; and a small circular camp, known as Alfred's Castle Imperial Clonakilty Cork cargoes at a quay 1 mile below the town. In the neighbourhood are some Druidical remains resembling those of Stonehenge. Bartholomew CLONAKILTY, or CLOUGHNAKILTY Cork those of Stonehenge; the centre stone of the circle is very large, and is composed of one mass of white quartz. Lewis:Ireland CLONDROHID Cork Stonehenge At Gurtavannir are two upright stones, and near them is a druidical circle. Not far distant is the table Lewis:Ireland Friars Heel Wiltshire Friars Heel , isolated block of stone at Stonehenge, 2 miles from Amesbury, Wilts. Bartholomew Salisbury Plain Wiltshire height of 775 ft. on Westbury Down. The Druidical circle of Stonehenge is in the plain, 6 miles N. of Salisbury. Bartholomew SALISBURY PLAIN Wiltshire Stonehenge, and numerous ancient camps, barrows, and earth-works; was, till a comparatively recent period, all in a state of nature Imperial Stennes Orkney church are the "Standing Stones of Stennes," two groups of ancient stone circles similar to those at Stonehenge. Bartholomew Stenness Orkney Stonehenge. They occur in two groups - the smaller (composed, however, of the larger stones) on the south-eastern peninsula, and the larger Groome Stonehenge Wiltshire Stonehenge , extensive group of gigantic standing stones, Salisbury Plain, Wilts, 2 miles W. of Amesbury. The whole work consists of 2 circles Bartholomew STONEHENGE Wiltshire STONEHENGE , an extraordinary relic of antiquity in Amesbury parish, Wilts; on Salisbury plain, 2 miles W by N of Amesbury Imperial Wiltshire (or Wilts) Wiltshire Stonehenge and Avebury. The county contains 29 hundreds, 340 pars, and parts of 7 others, the parl. and mun. bor. of Salisbury Bartholomew WILTS, or Wiltshire Wiltshire Stonehenge and Avebury. Cromlechs are at Bulford, Clatford, Littleton-Drew, and Monkton-Fields. Ancient British boundaries are presented in Wans Imperial
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