Today, Stonehenge is caught in the stranglehold of roads and traffic. Cars, lorries and buses thunder past on the busy A303 trunk road, and the A344 almost clips the monument's Heel Stone.

The car park and visitor facilities are positioned right next to the monument, are woefully inadequate. Visitors have to approach Stonehenge via a concrete tunnel under the road.

The World Heritage Site is criss-crossed by fences, restricting public access.
In 1993, Stonehenge's setting and presentation was condemned by the UK Parliament's House of Commons Public Accounts Committee as 'a national disgrace'.