Stonehenge Winter Solstice 2010

My family and I are coming to London for Christmas and would like to visit Stonehenge

on the Solstice.  What is the best type of public transport for us?  We are a group of six including one child.

Thanks from California!

Annette Rose

Hi, I go to Stonehenge for the winter solstice almost every year but I travel down from Coventry by car, if you are staying in London you may want drive there if you have use of a car because stonehenge is very remote, or you could stay in Sailisbury the day before where you may meet other people who will also be going and may be able to give you a lift, if that fails you could always walk from Sailisbury to Stonhenge if you feel up to it as it is only about 8 miles from Sailisbury.

Stonehenge isnt that remote, your best of walking from amesbury, its only a couple of miles east of stonehenge and in amesbury you'll find pubs and hotels to stay at if youve got the cash. There are also regular buses from salisbury to amesbury so public transport is definetly an option.

Are there any events this weekend in Stonehenge for the winter solstice?

Hello all,

Is anyone driving down from Sussex or London with a spare seat? Will gladly pay a share of petrol money.

Thanks

Q. When should THE winter solstice be celebrated at Stonehenge.
 A. on Wednesday December 22 at sunset.
A few years ago no one went to Stonehenge for the winter solstice, it was only the summer solstice that drew the crowds. Now the winter solstice is beginning to become just as popular, but for the sun rise on the shortest day not the sun set. Both ideas the summer sun rise and set and winter sun rise are complete misunderstandings of what the original religious propose of the monument was!
The first building of Stonehenge, the Henge with out the stones was a huge bank of white chalk in a big circle with an entrance and exit. What is white and round? The moon of course, the monument is aligned with the winter sun set, its there to mark the fertilization of the earth or the moon by the sun. These people were the first farmers, they grow wheat, there ancestors were hunter gathers who were ancestor worshipers. Hence the long barrows containing the bones of the ancestors which came before the first Henge’s were also orientated with there entrance facing the winter sun set. The meaning is obvious the sun unites sexually with the moon on the shortest day, the year starts again and nine months latter, the same length as the human gestation period, the first wheat can be harvested and is made into bread. The lunar month of twenty eight days is also the same as the human fertility cycle. Even today thousands of years latter the sun is seen as male the moon as female. The length of the year and the seasons became important with farming, knowing when to sow and when to reap, this ran parallel with the older worshiping of the ancestors, first with there bones being kept and then with the ancestors being represented by stones. Many of the stone circles are not circles at all but oval egg shapes. The same shape as the opening to the human vagina. The living could stand in a circle with the ancestors stones allowing the living and the dead to both take part in the annual fertilization ceremony.
At Stonehenge on the 22nd of December the  sun can be seen setting thought the gap in the huge sarsen stones marking the moment the sun fertilizes the moon.

Please can you confirm that Stonehenge is open for access tomorrow 22nd Dec. for Winter Solstice celebration from 07.30 till 09.00

I think it is marvellous that access is still allowed to the henge,as it is the peoples right and heres hoping that it always will be,blessed be. 

Boat from US then skis. 

Hello there,

I had made plans to go with a tour to the 2010 Winter Solstice at Stonehenge but never made it to England at all with the flight cancelations.  Did anybody attend?  Can you share with me how it went?