Stonehenge, Salisbury market, Salisbury cathedral, Pub lunch and Avebury

It's market day today in Salisbury, one that is 800 years old. For those who wish to wander a little further there's the church of St. Thomas's has a splendid "Doom" painting, a medieval "Butter" cross and "The Haunch of Venison" a local Inn which holds a gruesome secret.

A short drive takes for a photo opportunity of Salisbury cathedral and its famous spire. Inside the cathedral there's the world oldest working clock mechanism and a model of the cathedral as it was built 800 years ago. The chapter house holds the greatest gem of all, Magna Carta, the foundation of the rule of law in England. 

Lunch time now and where better than a traditional English pub serving excellent food. Fish and chips are the the menu as well as vegan and vegetarian options.

Our tour continues alongside the Avon, a rare chalk river. Along the way we pass by some delightful thatched buildings and walls, chequered manor houses and a very famous musician's house. 

We cross over the Avon through the village of Amesbury, whose history goes back an incredible 10,000 years and on to Woodhenge and Durrington walls for a short break.

Next we take the back road to Stonehenge for our tour. Using our very audio guid you will be escorted up to the Stones and your time is your own to browse the site at your leisure.

A drive over the Marlborough Downs takes us past Brunel's Great Western railway, an old canal and a Saxon church. Nearby there is a white horse, a chalk figure carved into the hillside. 

We stop briefly by the quarry rom where some of the stones at Stonehenge were quarried  before we visit "The Sanctuary" and ancient stone circle and part of the vast Avebury stone circle complex.

There'll be time to visit Silbury hill, the largest man-made pre-historic mound in Europe before our tour of Avebury stone circle, the largest pre-historic stone circle in the world. 

We depart by way of the old coaching road that linked the Roman city of Bath to London by-passing the market towns of Marlborough and Hungerford.