When John Constable exhibited his famous painting of Stonehenge with a dramatic and turbulent sky at the Royal Academy in 1836, he captioned it:

'The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries you back beyond all historical recall into the obscurity of a totally unknown period.'

Today, the bare and boundless heath has gone, and with it much of the lonely atmosphere created by its once remote setting on Salisbury Plain. The crowning achievement of the Stonehenge Project will be the removal of the roads, replacing the sound of traffic with birdsong and enabling you to enjoy Stonehenge and its landscape safely and peacefully. To find out more about how this will be done, go to the roam-around map on the following pages.