This private day trip visits the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge and the historic cathedral city of Salisbury, including a visit to Salisbury Cathedral, home to Britain's tallest church spire.
After meeting your guide, you depart for Stonehenge, part of the "Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites" UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed in 1986. The monument's construction took place in phases from roughly 3000 BC to 1500 BC, making it around 5,000 years old at its earliest stages. It stands on a wide plain in the Wiltshire countryside not far from Salisbury, and its exact original purpose is still debated by archaeologists. As you walk the perimeter path around the stones, your guide explains the leading theories and points out the scale of the sarsen stones and bluestones that make up the monument.
From Stonehenge, you drive to Salisbury, a market town that grew up around its cathedral after the hilltop settlement of Old Sarum relocated to this site starting in 1220. You take a short walking tour through the city center, where different streets were historically dedicated to different trades, such as Fish Row, Butcher Row and Poultry Cross, and many timber-framed houses from that era still stand today.
After free time for lunch (meal not included), you visit Salisbury Cathedral, built in just 38 years between 1220 and 1258, an unusually short construction period for a medieval cathedral that gives it a more unified Early English Gothic style than most. The Cathedral holds one of only four surviving original copies of the 1215 Magna Carta, and its 404-foot spire is the tallest in Britain. It is also home to Europe's oldest working clock mechanism, dating to around 1386.
Review Location- London 
