Stonehenge Festival Campaign March 2017 Newsletter Back

Harry Munk band playing in dub bus in the drove, spring equinox 2017

English Heriticage will open their gates to our Stones around 5 a.m. ish on Monday 20th March 2017, when the equinox sun will rise East.

Some of us will be camping the night before in the track west of the Stones (entrance from Larkhill or left from the A303 driving towards Amesbury – if coming the other way pass the Stones and U-turn at the roundabout).

Please bring firewood and drums!

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Stonehenge solstice sunrise will be at about 8.15 a.m on Wednesday 21st December 2016 –  (though it may be cloudy)

English Heriticage will open a carpark around 5.30 a.m. from where you can walk or catch a shuttle bus to the Stones. And there are special buses from Amesbury and Salisbury.

But access to the drove from the dangerous A303 entrance  is closed and from the Larkhill north end will be closed from around sunset Tuesday, there will be access through the English Heriticage Car Park to the drove until about midnight, then there’s nowhere to park until about 6 a.m.

At least that’s what I understood from a planning meeting I went to at Amesbury recently, seems a bit mad to me!

Check out one of the many facebook groups for more uptodate information.

See you there – [dicegeorge]

English Heriticage have announced changes for this year’s summer Solstice: they will be charging £15 per car for parking in their carpark, and searching people for alcohol and other drugs.

However entry to the Stones (from 7pm) is still free if you walk there or catch one of the many buses from Salisbury.

There is much outrage on facebook about these changes, and mutterings of protests.

Last summer the centre was quiet early on, please bring more drums for a live acoustic rave in the centre from sunset to sunrise!

Access to monument field – 7pm
Sunset – 9:26pm

Sunrise – 4:52am (Tuesday)

See other sites:

• Stonehenge Festival Campaign
• Facebook OATS (Open Access to Stonehenge)
• Facebook Stonehenge Free Festival Campaign
• English Heritcage terms and condiditons page

A virtual-reality tour of Stonehenge, and the legend of Merlin bringing the Stones from Ireland are at: http://www.voicesfromthedawn.com/stonehenge/

We will camp and gather on the track a hundred yards west of the Stones the night before (bring more firewood) until English Heriticage open their gates. The track will probably be closed if and when its full, then parking be provided at their Visitor Centre with a brisk walk to the Stones (or bus ride for the disabled). Again there will be no toilets for overnight stayers despite repeated requests from the people. But dont dig holes in the archeologically sensitive ground – bring a plastic bag.

• June Solstice opening will be the evening of Monday 20th June 2016 and Sunrise on Tuesday 21st June – but beware English Heriticage are discussing charging for car parking and banning alcohol,  as well as body searches on entry..
• September Equinox opening will probably be the morning of  September 23rd 2016

Links:

• Stonehenge Festival Campaign
• Facebook Stonehenge Campaign
• Facebook Stonehenge Free Festival Campaign
• Facebook Open Access to Stonehenge
• timeanddate

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