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  • Stonehenge.!
  • neilsonwheels
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    Popped in on the way through to our campsite today. £3 to park, fair enough but £6.90 to get into the enclosure.!

    WTF…!!!

    Only in England. Has this place gone mad.?

    jon1973
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    Supply and Demand I guess and you can always join English Heritage. It's not just England though, when we went to France last year, pretty much everything was between 10 and 20 euros to get in to – Everyone cashes in on tourists. At least English Heritage is charity and keeps a lot of old/historic properties open and maintained – and that's an expensive business. If Stonehenge was owned privately, it would be a lot more than £6.90 to get in.

    BontyBuns
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    £6.90 is obscene. That area is rich. Stuff costs alot. go figure.

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    redthunder
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    There are plenty of other megalithic locations around the UK with much more spirit.

    Stonehenge now longer has any spirit.

    jon1973
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    Stonehenge now longer has any spirit.

    Shut up hippy 😆

    ..only joking.

    HeathenWoods
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    It's an obscenity. English Heritage are ethically bankrupt.

    Supply and Demand I guess

    Or exploiting a national treasure.

    RichPenny
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    Just park on the lane then bunk over the fence innit 🙂

    HeathenWoods
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    There are plenty of other megalithic locations around the UK with much more spirit.

    True enough but it doesn't excuse squeezing the last of its life from it.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    In ancient times
    Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
    Lived a strange race of people, the druids

    No one knows who they were
    Or what they were doing
    But their legacy remains
    Here into the living rock of Stonehenge

    jon1973
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    It's an obscenity. English Heritage are ethically bankrupt….Or exploiting a national treasure.

    I'm not saying it's a reasonable price, but it's a non-profit charity. I guess you could argue that it exploits 'popular' attractions to subsidise other important properties – it's not like anyone else is going to do that.

    llama
    Full Member

    Whenever work collegues come from overseas they always want to see stonehenge.

    They always leave disapointed.

    Those bloody druids would be spinning on their alters

    sweepy
    Free Member

    It cant cost much to maintain, rip off IMO

    edhornby
    Full Member

    no-one knows who they were or what they were doin…

    jonb
    Free Member

    google earth

    HeathenWoods
    Free Member

    I guess you could argue that it exploits 'popular' attractions to subsidise other important properties – it's not like anyone else is going to do that.

    In theory I'd like to agree with you but I'm not sure they use their funds to the sites' best interests. They're lots of black holes into which 'not-for profit' monies can disappear into.

    oh, and lol @ flasheart.

    another oh, and… fave Stonehenge song

    simonralli2
    Free Member

    Crumbs! Terrible!

    How do you think I felt paying the monumental sum of 12 of your English pounds for a private early morning ceremony with a little group of friends before the masses arrived!!???

    I must be a mug as I have done that twice now. I'd say the energy is alive and well 🙂

    Cougar
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    I think I'd begrudge paying seven quid a lot less if you could actually get near the thing. I understand the need to scrote-proof it of course, but it's a bit galling when you pay your money to be told "that's it, over there."

    mrmo
    Free Member

    went there a few weeks back, busy and expensive. But more anoying you can't really get anywhere near the stones.

    Much prefered Avebury and even woodhenge with its little markers felt more understandable.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    simonralli2 – do they still allow masses at Stonehenge? I thought they'd outlawed that sort of thing.

    (-:

    neilsonwheels
    Free Member

    One gent I was talking to said it was "for the upkeep".

    It's not the forty road bridge ffs. Between the parking and the cafe they must be raking it in. No excuse imo. Just bleeding folk of their hard earned. Vert dissapointed. Glad I got to see it but still miffed.

    jon1973
    Free Member

    That's a fair point HeathenWoods although I'm not sure how true that is in the case of EH.

    You can join for 40 quid a year, which makes everything sound pretty reasonable given the number of properties you then have free access to. I'm clearly in a minority though 😉

    PenrodPooch
    Free Member

    Can't see the harm in using it as a cash cow to provide funds for other projects TBH

    simonralli2
    Free Member

    Cougar – yes they do and the staff are very friendly, welcoming and open to people of any background. They even let you touch the stones 🙂

    Some friends of mine posted some Stonehenge ceremony photos last week so yes, you can still do this.

    Oh and if anyone wants a big in your face henge, Thornborough Henges is worth a cheeky visit!

    inkster
    Free Member

    Why fence it off?

    Stonehenge would make a world class graffiti location. The paint might help preserve the stones for future generations as well.

    gusamc
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    A souless place, given the amount pissed up on the wall on repeated (and useless) enquiries, consultations and strategic future plans I'm hoping that some pissed up bulldozer driver and a mate with a grab lorry save us all a fortune one evening.

    Try Callanish or Brogar and Hadrians Wall – actually worth a visit,

    ziggy
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    We used to picnic there most Sundays as kids as it was just down the road, the ropes went up after selfish twunts kept chisling bits of to take home.

    Hopefully the visitor centre will finally get made one day, although looks like the funding is going to disappear 🙁

    beaker
    Full Member

    I drive past the bloody place twice a day and I never fail to be amazed by the amount of people wandering around. It'd be good if english heritage spent some of the profits from the site to make the a303 a dual carriageway past it.

    igm
    Full Member

    For your massive area of megalithic stuff at the bargain price of no entry fee may I recommend Kilmartin Glen

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    I have a route that incorporates the bridleway beside Stonehenge, bit difficult to cross the two A roads though. 🙁

    Could be a possibility for a Forum Ride at some point?

    jon1973
    Free Member

    be good if english heritage spent some of the profits from the site to make the a303 a dual carriageway past it.

    I'm not sure we should be making charities responsible for roads widening schemes.

    sonik
    Free Member

    last time i was at 'the henge' i ended up having a truncheon wrapped arond my head!!!! 😕

    markfu
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    I lived about 2 miles from there a couple of years ago, every time that we had family visit they all wanted to see it…. they all left disappointed. I agree that Avebury is much more interesting.

    Hairychested
    Free Member

    Pop over to Ireland, loads of older places open to public FOC, kid you not 🙂

    HeathenWoods
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    If we're talking about alternatives, I was down in Cornwall for a conference last week (feat. Ronald Hutton talking about Druids amongst others) and visited the Hurlers on my way down and up. That is an amazing place!

    On my first visit there were bullocks charging each other on the edges of the central circle and on my second there were wild ponies and their foals wandering round the site. Beautiful!

    SuperScale20
    Free Member

    Driven past twice and just slowed down.

    buzz-lightyear
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    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    markfu, Durrington or Larkhill? Either way, not good!

    guido
    Full Member

    Funny thread- will send around work tomorrow.
    Also BTW-EH is not a charity it a part of the DCMS.

    lagerfanny
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    Tiger6791
    Full Member

    Wood henge just up the road is free, Stonehenge is for mugs.

    Strawhenge has gone

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