AVEBURY & LACOCK
This is some kind of wonderful. Lacock is the most exquisite village in England. No wonder Harry Potter, Pride & Prejudice and Emma were filmed here. We're talking a living village: just four streets, houses of every century from the 13th onward, the river Avon and a swabbling brook, Snaylesmead Meadow and Lacock Abbey. And as for Avebury, it beggars all description. 
 
 
The largest stone circle complex on earth, it speaks to us across the ages, speaks of a secret geometry and lost science, of an ancient time more clairvoyant and star-born than ours. And that's not to mention the white horses cut into the hillside or Silbury Hill, the largest Neolithic monument in Europe. It's the same age as - indeed, it is England's Great Pyramid. And on that note, here's a little feast-your-eyes photo-essay on Avenbury & Lacock!
 
And if you want a lengthy - a really thorough, really detailed - description/account of the Avebury & Lacock outing, click here.

 In the Summer 2010 London Walks programme -
which kicks in on April 23rd and runs through October 31st -
we go to Avebury & Lacock on:
 
Saturday, July 17
 
Saturday, September 18

 Tariff £39

Meet Richard at 8.45 am by the main ticket office
(it's right by Platform One) of Paddington   Railway Station.