14 Oct 2026, 06:30 PM
Country diary: This is Dorset’s worst-located stone circle – but Nine Stones is well worth a visit | Sara Hudston
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Winterbourne Abbas: These bronze age megaliths have hosted rituals and seen off electricity pylons. Today they endure by the side of an A-roadThe Nine Stones at Winterbourne Abbas have an inglorious setting. Hard by the A35, there are only slim iron railings and a small ditch to shield the circle from the heavy traffic rumbling west. And for about six months of the year the ditch flows with water (the winter bourne), often overspilling and flooding the road.Yet the surroundings used to be even less picturesque. Until a few years ago, a line of high‑voltage electricity pylons looped across the valley, humming and sizzling a few hundred metres from the monument. Continue reading...
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