>Stonehenge is ably supported by the Wiltshire Heritage Museum at Devizes and South Wilts Museum at Salisbury, it doesn't need a Visitor Centre or a Theme Park that is just a cash cow for you know who) ?<
This whole debate is far too important to get bogged down in detail but I must respectfully disagree with you on the matter of Stonehenge being ably supported by the Wiltshire Heritage Museum at Devizes and the South Wiltshire Museum at Salisbury; excellent though those museums are they cater for people with the time to go to them, not the average visitor to Stonehenge (overseas visitors and school children in particular). Avebury is blessed with both a museum and a visitors' centre 'on site' though they attract only a small percentage of the actual number of visitors to the Avebury circle itself (please don't ask me to provide accurate figures there - the observation is made after many years sitting in and out of the Stones Restaurant watching how many people actually go into the Keiller Museum and the Great Barn compared to the number of people milling around the circle, gift shops and pub :-)
Let's face it, Stonehenge is never going to be the silent sacred place many of us would like it to be - it's too well known and attracts too many people with not enough time to time to travel on to Devizes and Salisbury for more information. The bottom line is that we must try to recapture a little of the mystery of Stonehenge while providing the majority of its visitors with as much background information as possible during their short stay there.
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