Visiting Avebury between 20-22 June
Summer Solstice is an extremely busy time of the year at Avebury. If possible, please schedule your visit for another time. Car parking is likely to be very limited. Please note: Avebury Manor is currently closed following flooding in January, but all other facilities are open as usual.
If you are planning to visit during the Summer Solstice, please read through this information below, which will help you get the best out of your time here.
Car parking
Please be aware that car parking is very limited during this period. We advise that you travel by public transport or arrange to be dropped off and collected.
Our main visitor car park will open at 9am on 20 June and remain open in the evening for as long as capacity allows. It will be exit only after 10pm.
The visitor car park will reopen if there are available spaces on the morning of 21 June for sunrise parking.
Car park charges are £7 for all day and £4 for after 3pm.
If the weather is dry, there will be overflow car parking available in the Avebury Manor parkland in the evening of 20 June, with the last entry being at 10pm. This will be for cars only (no vans, buses, or campervans) and there will be a 2.1m height barrier in place.
Overflow parking will cost £4 (free to NT and EHT members) and will be cash only. Please have this ready to hand over when you arrive, or you will be asked to move on so cars do not form a queue on the main road.
The overflow car park will be exit only after 10pm and all cars need to have vacated the car park by 10am on 21 June.
Please note that there is no on-street parking available anywhere in or around Avebury.
Sleeping in vehicles or camping outside the designated area is not permitted.
Updates on parking will be posted to this website and our Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram accounts. Please check for the latest information before travelling.
Camping
There will be a small campsite available at the back of the main visitor car park on a first come, first served basis. Spaces cannot be pre-booked.
This is free of charge but if you are parking in the visitor car park, you will need to pay for parking for the days that you stay at Avebury.
The campsite opens at 10am on 20 June and closes at 2pm on 22 June.
There are toilet facilities in the campsite, but no water available. There is a drinking water tap outside Circles Restaurant in the Old Farmyard.
Small, self-contained barbeques and camping stoves are permitted if they are at least six inches off the ground.
Open fires, fireworks, fire poi, Chinese lanterns, fire-breathing and associated accelerants are not permitted.
No music, singing or drumming between midnight and 4.00am.
Well-behaved dogs on leads are allowed in the campsite, but we reserve the right to ask owners to leave if we feel their dogs are not under control or pose a risk.
Food
Our Circles Restaurant will be open as normal (10am-5pm) on 20 June and 22 June. The restaurant will open from 8am – 3.30pm on 21 June.
Additional hot drinks and light snacks will be available from the Coach House Café on Avebury High Street from 6pm on 20 June until 8am on 21 June.
Toilets and Welfare
There are toilets available behind the Coach House Café in the High Street – these will remain open from 10am on 20 June until 5pm on 22 June.
Between 20 – 22 June there will also be portable toilets (including accessible facilities) available in the High Street and in the campsite.
Designated waste and recycling bins will be available in the High Street.
A St John Ambulance treatment unit will be located in Green Street and Wiltshire Police will be on site if needed.
We ask that you are considerate to residents in Avebury over the solstice period by keeping noise to the minimum. Because of this, and for the comfort of other celebrants, we do not allow amplified music on National Trust land, including the stone circle and campsite.
We also ask that all drumming, including in the campsite, finishes by 11pm.
Protecting the monument
Please note: to protect the monument, the following items and activities are not allowed:
- No climbing on the stones
- No open fires, barbecues, fireworks, fire poi, Chinese lanterns, fire-breathing and associated accelerants
- No tents, windbreaks, shelters are allowed on NT land (including the stone circle and henge)
- No drones are allowed over National Trust land