The English Heritage Visitor Centre at Stonehenge is located 2 kilometers from the monument. This is your entry point to Stonehenge and the place where you pick up your tickets, souvenir guides and optional audio guides. The new Visitor Centre also offers a modern exhibition with prehistoric objects on display, and a spacious café and gift shop. A Stonehenge shuttle transports you between the Visitor Centre and Stonehenge (included in your ticket price). English Heritage advise to expect a visit to last around two hours. Please see the table below for opening times for 2019, with some seasonal variability, and entrance prices for adults, children, families, seniors and groups.
If you come by car you will park in the car park outside the visitor centre. It is free for people purchasing tickets to enter Stonehenge, there is a charge if you are not. Tour buses have their own separate coach park.
All Members of English Heritage or National Trust must show a valid membership card on arrival to be granted free parking and site access.
To enter the Stonehenge Exhibition at the Visitor Centre you need a full ticket to Stonehenge, anyone can access the café, gift shop and toilets though, for free.
Very Important! Book Your Stonehenge Tickets in Advance To be assured of entering Stonehenge the best way is to reserve timed tickets in advance on the
English Heritage web site or if you need more flexibility and without the time constraint you can purchase
discount advance Stonehenge tickets here
Tickets to Stonehenge are booked by half hour time slot, the website showing you how many tickets are still available for your chosen date and time.
Note: you cannot reserve tickets on-line on the day of your visit, you must reserve before midnight latest on the day before. Only a very small number of tickets are held back each day for walk-up visitors.
Note: the last admission time is two hours before closing time of Stonehenge. Closing times are variable according to month of the year (see below)
2019 STONEHENGE OPENING TIMES (Last entry 2 hours before closing)
1st JANUARY 2019 – 31st MARCH 2020
| Monday | 9:30 – 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 9:30 – 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 9:30 – 17:00 |
| Thursday | 9:30 – 17:00 |
| Friday | 9:30 – 17:00 |
| Saturday | 9:30 – 17:00 |
| Sunday | 9:30 – 17:00 |
1st APRIL 2019 – 31st MAY 2019
| Monday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Tuesday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Wednesday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Thursday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Friday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Saturday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Sunday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
1st JUNE 2019 – 31st AUGUST 2019
| Monday | 9:00 – 20:00 |
| Tuesday | 9:00 – 20:00 |
| Wednesday | 9:00 – 20:00 |
| Thursday | 9:00 – 20:00 |
| Friday | 9:00 – 20:00 |
| Saturday | 9:00 – 20:00 |
| Sunday | 9:00 – 20:00 |
1st SEPTEMBER 2019 – 15th OCTOBER 2019
| Monday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Tuesday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Wednesday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Thursday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Friday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Saturday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
| Sunday | 9:30 – 19:00 |
16th OCTOBER 2019 ONWARDSOpening times will be available nearer the time
The Stonehenge Tourist Guide
Back in 2010 he spent many sessions taking thousands of photographs inside Stonehenge, when it was closed to the public, which have been ‘stitched’ together to unique set of views of the inner circle. All similar ones we have seen are taken from just one spot, but what makes this unique is that you can take a panoramic view from several different places inside Stonehenge – just choose your viewpoint on the plan in the bottom left hand corner and away you go.
INTERACTIVE MAPS OF THE STONEHENGE LANDSCAPE: Discover what the landscape around Stonehenge has looked like from before the monument itself was first built through to the present day. Move between the four maps to see the Stonehenge landscape at different periods, and open the image windows to find out more about each feature. Click here
If this has whetted your appetite and you want to go inside Stonehenge and learn more about the other monuments in the surrounding landscape which help explain why the stones are where they are, then have a look at the Stonehenge special access tours
The Stonehenge Tourist Guide
