Wiltshire
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A ring of stones on Salisbury Plain that has outlasted the empires that came after it — Stonehenge took over 1,500 years to build, aligns precisely with the summer and winter solstice sun, and still draws thousands of people to stand among the stones for free, twice a year, at dawn.
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The oldest of Wiltshire’s eight chalk horses, redesigned from scratch in 1778 by a steward some branded a vandal, and now made not of chalk at all but of painted concrete.