Part 2 – from April to June Welcome to the second part of Oldbury Tours’ year in photographs, a pictorial journey through the months of a second COVID struck year. With the Winter of 2020 -21 over we now move into Spring. There was some optimism as the colour returned to Wiltshire. My walks got… Read more »
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Part 1 – from January to March It’s a bit late but…Happy New Year from Oldbury Tours!! Like everyone else, we at Oldbury Tours hope that 2022 will bring us all back to a life we can recognise as normal. I hardly need to say that last year was a strange and difficult one. The… Read more »
A walk to Stonehenge through one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the UK. Part III – The final journey. From Durrington Walls to Stonehenge. This is part three of a personal pilgrimage from my house in Calne, Wiltshire to Stonehenge for the Stonehenge winter solstice. I am walking the 28 mile route across central… Read more »
A walk to Stonehenge through one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the UK. Part II – From Henge to Henge, Marden to Durrington Walls, Wiltshire This is part two of a personal pilgrimage from my house in Calne, Wiltshire to Stonehenge for the winter solstice. I am walking the 28 mile route across central… Read more »
A walk to Stonehenge through one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the UK. Part I – from home to lunch in the village of Marden, Wiltshire. This is a description of a journey, I could even say a pilgrimage, that I have wanted to make for many years. The journey will take me and… Read more »
Just before the UK went into lock-down, amid all the worries for what the future held, the sun came up on another day. Because of the terrible Covid-19 virus hundreds of people were dying in Italy and Spain and across the globe; doctors and nurses were frantically, desperately, trying to save lives in stifling hospitals… Read more »
Travelling the world with local guides. I have learned through my own experiences that hiring a knowledgeable local guide greatly enhances the enjoyment of a tour. A local guide will want to share his love for the subject whether that is simply their local area or something to be found within it. It is our… Read more »
Stonehenge stone raising. When I saw that English Heritage were going to experiment with raising a stone at Stonehenge it was something I was very keen to witness if not participate in. Perhaps unexpectedly the event in March 2018 was billed not so much as a study of the processes required for erecting the stone… Read more »
Two avenues of huge standing stones lead out of Avebury linking the giant stone circle with other important sites in the wider landscape. On a massive scale: Avebury and the Avebury Avenues Probably the most extraordinary thing about Avebury is the sheer scale of the monument. Not only does it incorporate the largest of all… Read more »
Causewayed enclosures are among the oldest monuments in the UK. Now little more than grass banks and ditches, they were once sites of great importance to the local population: ‘they represent the earliest form of non-funerary monument and the first instance of the artificial enclosure of open space known in the British Isles.’ (Oswald, Dyer… Read more »