Stonehenge Historic Landscape
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The Stonehenge Historic Landscape is a property of The National Trust, located near Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The estate, formerly known as Stonehenge Down, covers 21 km² surrounding the neolithic monument of Stonehenge which is owned by English Heritage.
The property includes nearly 400 ancient monuments, many of them scheduled, including numerous burial mounds known as barrows. Other features include the enormous earthwork known as the Cursus, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls. The land owned by the Trust comprises almost one third of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
The estate also includes the Nile Clumps, large clumps of trees on arable farmland, said to represent ship positions at the Battle of the Nile. This is said to form a large memorial to Nelson.
