Visiting Stonehenge

[MontyVeda]

What I find difficult to stomach is the £23 fee for a ticket, with parking incurring an additional charge.

Wonder how English heritage can justify that ...

they spent a fortune keeping the hippies out, and need to claw it back from the more desirable types.

 

[Solocle]

This is do-able. The stretch on the a303 is minimal. I wouldn’t do it but obviously people do.

Short stretches can be OK, but it really depends. Hilariously I've actually ridden the majority of the A303 at some point.

But breaking it down:

• LEJOG Day 2 - August Bank Holiday Monday 2021. Blackdown Hills. Manageable, although Ilminster to the A356 was sketchy af. Couldn't face the extra climbing of a quieter route that day.
• Central section between Ilchester and A350 - Lockdown rides. Kinda fun.
• Willoughby Hedge to Wylyle - Pretty standard A303 conditions in February '23, but substantially single carriageway. Main dual carriageway section had a nice wide hatched area for the climb out of Chicklade. Second ride to Stonehenge.
• Popham to Michaeldever / A34 to Stonehenge. First ride to Stonehenge. This section is basically hell. But the full ride was London-Stonehenge, overnight, and I reached Popham at 3am. Not much traffic at that time of night, to the point where I stuck with the road that had the places to eat, rather than the desert that would be the A30, or the country lanes with lurking potholes. Plus, Stonehenge.