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Solstice at Stonehenge | English Heritage What is solstice and what is its significance at Stonehenge Find out here with explanatory videos and details of winter and summer solstice celebrations
What is the Summer Solstice? - English Heritage Stonehenge is famous for its alignment on sunrise on the longest day of the year and each year thousands of people come to the site at midsummer But what is the solstice and what did it mean for prehistoric people?
Learn: Celebrating Solstice at Stonehenge - English Heritage The stones of Stonehenge have marked the summer and winter solstices for thousands of years Discover more about the links between the monument and the solstices by taking a virtual tour, investigating our skyscape and reading about our research into this ancient site
Understanding Stonehenge | English Heritage The whole layout of Stonehenge is therefore designed in relation to the solstices, which are the extreme limits of the sun’s movement The solstice axis is also marked by the Station Stones, which are placed at the corners of a rectangle around the edge of the surrounding circular ditch
What is the Winter Solstice? - English Heritage At the summer solstice, around 21 June, the sun rises behind the Heel Stone and its first rays shine into the heart of Stonehenge Although the tallest trilithon at the monument is no longer standing, the sun would have set between the narrow gap of these uprights during the winter solstice
Summer Solstice at Stonehenge - English Heritage Stonehenge will open for solstice at 7pm on Saturday 20 June to 8am on Sunday 21 June The solstice car park will open from 7pm on Saturday 20 June, with last admission at 6am on Sunday 21 June – or earlier if full The car park must be vacated by 12 noon on Sunday 21 June
Conditions of entry 2024 | English Heritage If you would like to find out more about how we protect and care for Stonehenge during the year and over the Solstice you can read more about this on the English Heritage website English Heritage is pleased to provide free Managed Open Access to Stonehenge Solstice and Equinox celebrations
SUMMER SOLSTICE AT STONEHENGE, 21 JUNE 2025 - English Heritage English Heritage was delighted to welcome around 25,000 people to Stonehenge this morning to celebrate the Summer Solstice sunrise – with over 400,000 views from across the world on the charity’s livestream of the sunrise
Travelling to Stonehenge - English Heritage All traffic will be diverted along the A303 to the Countess roundabout, then north along the A345 Countess Road, then west along the Packway, then south on the B3086 to the Stonehenge coach park where cars will then be directed to the solstice car park
Thousands celebrate summer solstice at Stonehenge About 13,000 people welcomed the longest day of the year at Stonehenge's summer solstice overnight Stonehenge is an ancient prehistoric site which may have been a place of worship and celebration around solstice for thousands of years