The Stanton Drew stone circles are located just outside the village. The largest stone circle is the Great Circle (pictured above), and is 113 metres in diameter. This makes it the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury), and is considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built. It dates between 3000 and 2000 BCE which places it in the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. It was made a scheduled monument in 1982.

 

Legend states that the stones are a petrified wedding party, the revellers having been turned to stone by the Devil himself! Folklore also has it that confusion - and maybe even death - will befall anyone who attempts to count the stones.