There are often cars parked on the byways close by when I drive past on the 303, so it would be easy to park up and wander over.
This time of year, depending on time of day, I wouldn’t be surprised if you couldn’t drive into the Red Lion car park in Avebury, then go for a wander over to Silbury Hill and West Kennet Longbarrow, walk round the circle then adjourn to the pub for beer and food. It’s what I usually do.
If the pub carpark is full, drive along the lane that goes off the main road opposite the carpark, this is the Herepath which runs up to the Ridgeway; if you go along there, out of the circle for a hundred metres or so, past a big red-brick house on the right, there’s a small pull-in on the left where I often park, nose in, and walk back.
That’s on a Sunday, when it can be pretty busy.
Silbury Hill is interesting but you just get to look at it, you’re restricted from going on it
Yeah, well, that’s what the signs say…
There are no guards, and no barbed wire fences, and if you look at the reverse side of the hill as you approach from Avebury you can see clear tracks up the side of the hill.
There’s a clear spiral path that used to be used for ceremonial purposes, that is clearly seen on William Stukeley’s engravings from the 1700’s, so there’s been no significant damage caused by people climbing it for four hundred years, only by idiots digging bloody holes in it!
Not that I’m openly advocating you climb it, that would be irresponsible… 😉
