---
node: spot_stonehenge_woodhenge
type: spot
slug: woodhenge
destination: dest_stonehenge
title: "Woodhenge"
lead: "Woodhenge is a neolithic timber circle three kilometres from Stonehenge, marked today by concrete posts standing where the postholes were found. It is free, open and almost always empty."
published: 2026-08-12
updated: 2026-08-12
image_file: spot_stonehenge_woodhenge.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodhenge_(2)_2025-07-23.jpg"
image_author: "Andy Li"
image_license: "CC0"
---

## Overview

Aerial photography found it in 1925, which is why it is named after its stone neighbour rather than by any older name — six concentric oval rings of posts inside a bank and ditch, aligned like Stonehenge on midsummer sunrise. A child's grave was found at the centre in that excavation. The concrete markers are unlovely but honest: they show the plan at full size, which a grassy field could not.

## Highlights

Come for the setting rather than the ruin: the whole Stonehenge landscape of barrows and avenues is visible from here without a ticket or a bus. Durrington Walls is the field immediately north and part of the same complex. There are no facilities of any kind.