The Red Lion at Avebury is famous for being the world’s only pub standing inside a stone circle but there’s another pub with an even better boast – it has a group of megaliths standing in its garden (see above). They’ve been scheduled for 135 years, as long as Stonehenge and Avebury and they’ve been standing there a thousand years longer.
What they were used for is a mystery but Historic England’s List Entry Summary helpfully suggests they may have had a “ritual purpose”. More convincingly, it’s said that a nearby village was the site of Camelot and that a sword was seen in a stone near to there. So ….. name those stones – and more to the point, name that pub!
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06/04/2016 at 09:29
thegrammarofmatter
The Cove, The Druids Arms, Stanton Drew?
06/04/2016 at 10:30
heritageaction
Maybe.
😉
06/04/2016 at 11:29
thegrammarofmatter
Never been there. Must have a look (and a pint).
06/04/2016 at 11:33
Keith MacDonald
Oooh, ooh!
Is it the The Druid’s Arms in Stanton Drew?
06/04/2016 at 11:56
heritageaction
Some say so! 😉