Stonehenge a listed on the World Heritage List stone megalithic structure in the county of Wiltshire. It is located about 130 km southwest of London about 3.2 km west of Amesbury and 13 km north of Salisbury.

One of the most famous archaeological sites in the world Stonehenge consists of ring and horseshoe structures built of large menhirs. It is located in the center of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England. The monument itself and its environs were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986 together with Avebury. Stonehenge was transferred to the British Heritage by the British Crown while the surrounding neighborhoods belong to the National Trust.

The exact translation of the ancient Old English name of Stonehenge Stanhengues (Stanhang) remains rather vague. Although the translations were made in the Middle Ages which gave suspended stones or hanging stones. Less convincing options stone loop and stone chicken associated with the gallows as the gallows represented a crossbar on two racks.

The modern name Stonehenge has the meaning of stone hengge that is the stone circle as the second part of the word served to create the archaeological term of the henge a ritual circle from the soil wall with a moat on the inside.

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