By Paul Timlett. UPDATED 22 December 2020. Today I revisited parts of this walk and realised that I made a major mistake when writing the original blog in March 2019. It seems that I lost my battle to find the site of Medieval Shaw Village in 2019 and that in the original blog I attributed its location to what are in fact some Iron Age earthworks. I have amended the original blog accordingly. The route map shows the advised route rather than the route I took on the day. As a

We all know where people congregate in Wiltshire around the time of the summer solstice. Stonehenge and Avebury get very busy on the longest day as they wait for the sun to rise early in the morning, just as the ancients did ( maybe ). But on the long summer nights in June and July, Wiltshire is a perfect place to find those quiet spots with uninterrupted views of the sun rising and falling against the horizon. The vantage point offers views that are as close as we can get to