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August
Day 5 - London to Plymouth We leave London and cross
the largely treeless chalk plateau of the
Salisbury Plains where there is the largest military
training area in the UK closed to the public.
We stop at ancient
prehistoric stone circle of Stonehenge which
was built in six stages between 3000 and 1520 BC It has
mystified generations of visitors with it's artificially shaped
sarsen stones (blocks of Cenozoic silcrete), arranged in post-and-lintel
formation, and because of the remote origin of its smaller bluestones (igneous and other rocks)
from 100–150 miles (160–240 km) away South Wales. (Source: Encyclopedia Britannica) Due to loss, photos used on this page were the work of fellow tourist, John
Fulton
 We
visit the medieval Salisbury Cathedral before
skirting Dartmoor National Park with it's stone outcrops looking
much like our MiddleMarch area...then to the city of
Plymouth.



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