Avebury

English

Proper noun

Avebury

1. A village and civil parish west of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, location of a prehistoric stone circle (OS grid ref SU1069).
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 40:

     Entering Avebury from any direction is like stepping back into the past. Before the centre of the village is reached, the road passes through an immense circle of brooding stones which stand like petrified ghosts of an age about which little is known.

References

• Parish map