Avebury, which is a part of Wiltshire’s World Heritage site, is often described as a magical place and the largest stone circle in the world.. Around 4,500 years ago, when the site of England's capital was a thinly inhabited marshland, the area around Avebury almost certainly formed the neolithic equivalent of a city. By coincidence this waterway has become a link between the two largest cultural centres of their day to have ever existed in the British Isles. This henge with its enormous ditch, bank, stones and avenues survives in a much depleted state, nearby Silbury Hill which is the largest man-made mound in pre-industrial Europe still dominates the surrounding landscape. The quote that antiquarian John Aubrey made of Avebury."it does as much exceed in greatness the so renowned Stonehenge as a Cathedral doeth a parish church", recognises the true importance of what has now been largely absorbed into the modern landscape of Wiltshire.
It remains a magical place as so many who have been there will agree. A visit to Avebury is a must, somehow, the spirits of all those who laboured in its creation or whatever it was that led them to create it. Avebury is the largest stone circle in the world: it is 427m (1401ft) in diameter covers an area of some 28 acres (11.5 ha). This World Heritage site is formed by a huge circular bank (a mile round), a massive ditch now only a half its original depth, and a great ring of 98 sarsen slabs enclosing two smaller circles of 30 stones each and other settings and arrangements of stones.
    The two smaller circles within the great ring were probably the heart of the ritual or ceremony. Of the northern one, only few stones are visible. Two of the central ones are called The Cove and may have been erected first, even before the great circle.