Salisbury to Amesbury via Stonehenge walk | 🇬🇧 Hiking UK | England | Travel Photography | 4K

A walk up the Avon valley with a magical approach to Stonehenge

Length
25.4 km (15.8 mi) for the full walk, including Salisbury Cathedral and Old Sarum and with lunch at The Wheatsheaf Inn at Lower Woodford.

There are several options for shortening the walk – see Walk Options below.

OS Maps
Explorer 130 or Landranger 184 (but some paths are not shown on the latter).

Note: The main walk directions are comprehensive but the OS map (or GPS device) is particularly recommended for the short cut option across fields into Amesbury, which has not been fully checked on the ground.

Toughness 6 out of 10; less for the shorter options. It is a long walk but with only gentle inclines.

Features
This superb walk has no major climbs but covers beautiful rolling countryside and farmland with spring flowers in April and May and fields of golden barley and wheat in high summer. You have an evocative and magical approach to Stonehenge across Salisbury Plain. After passing close to the site the route takes you down the original approach used by the Druids–The Avenue–as you set off on the final leg to Amesbury and a bus back to Salisbury city centre.

This walk is covered by our Club's insurance. Our Club is registered on The British Mountaineering Council (BMC)

© Club Hiking in London. Ltd (CASC) in collaboration with Saturday Walkers Club.

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