Era 10: Stonehenge at the Millenium
Visitor Centre
Great Bustard
The intention is to remove the 20th century clutter from the Stonehenge landscape by moving the roads and building a new Visitor Centre, called the "Gateway to Wessex", away from the Stonehenge site. The Stonehenge Millennium Park will be the world's pre-eminent prehistoric park where the public will be able to roam freely over the 4,000 acres of the World Heritage Site safe from car and noise pollution and from being run over or hung up on barbed wire. The new Visitor Centre will encourage as many of the hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, over half from overseas, who visit Stonehenge also to enjoy the richness of the region's heritage.
Visitor Centre
The new Visitor Centre will contain a state-of-the-art interpretation of the history and importance of the Stone Circle and the 450 ancient monuments that lie within a 2km radius. The public will be encouraged to set off on foot along one of the many grass paths and when they reach the Stone Circle they will be able to walk amongst its huge Sarsen uprights and Bluestones.
Great Bustard
One day the Great Bustard, one of the largest land birds in Europe, may be reintroduced to the Stonehenge area.
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