Save Stonehenge

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This used to be a Bronze Age village
and a beautiful river valley

Twyford Down: Picture courtesy of Chris Gillham
 This used to be a Bronze Age village
 

This used to be Stonehenge

It still is

Please help us fight for its future

Picture by Martin Gray used by kind
permission and courtesy of SacredSites.com

What's this all about?

The British government wants to construct a new 4-lane highway through the Stonehenge World Heritage site and its surrounding landscape
Less than 20% of the highway would be in a tunnel
Over 80% would be bulldozed at ground level or in deep cuttings
The stone circle would not be damaged or destroyed
But the highway would be massively destructive of the World Heritage Site around it

http://www.savestonehenge.org.uk/

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Wednesday 27 June 2007
World Heritage Site threatened by roadbuilding scheme!
“...barbaric... No other country in the world would contemplate treating a site which is a world icon in such a way.” Lord Kennet

 
Picture by Ian Britton from FreeFoto.com

One of the world's most famous heritage sites, Stonehenge, is threatened by a massive and highly destructive road-building scheme:

The British Government's Department for Transport is planning to widen the A303 highway that runs close to the monument. 
The result will effectively be the "M303": a four-lane dual carriageway from London to the West Country cutting right through the heart of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
Only the central 1.3-mile-long section of the new road nearest to the stone circle would be in a tunnel. The other six miles of the highway would be bulldozed at ground level, or in cuttings (deep trenches), through the priceless landscape around Stonehenge. Even with the tunnel, over two miles of brand new, four-lane highway would still be bulldozed through the World Heritage Site.
Outside the tunnel, the World Heritage Site would be split in two by a noisy and unsightly dual carriageway (four-lane highway), securely fenced and with long cuttings leading down to tunnel entrances, lit day and night.
The stone circle will not be harmed, but its landscape setting will be badly damaged and other important archaeological remains will be destroyed.
The road, and a massive new visitor centre that goes with it, could have major ecological impacts and would have damaging effects on local communities.

Saving a few minutes of motorists' time
is less important than preserving 5000 years of history.

We need your help to stop this!

http://www.savestonehenge.org.uk/homepage.html