Stonehenge & surrounding areas

We took a day trip last week and traveled down to Stonehenge. It's hard to imagine how big this is unless you are there, but the people standing off to the left give you a bit of an idea. It's amazing to think that this was done about 5000 years ago. It towers above you and there's another 7 ft below ground.

This is Salisbury Cathedral. It has the tallest spire in England and took 38 years to complete.

These are the Fovant Badges. They are Cap Badges of regiments that trained in the area between 1914 and 1918 during World War I. Starting with the one on the left that is half out of the picture and moving to the right they are: Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, Royal Corp of Signals, The Wilshire Regiment, London Rifle Brigade, and the City of London Rifles. Soldiers would come out on their own time and start work at 3:00 or 4:00 AM before they started drill and removed the grass and carved the badges in the chalk. 9 still exist and are maintained by volunteers but another 19 have been lost. It is a sad thing to think about these young men out working on this hill creating these badges. In a few months many would have died on the fields of France. Indeed a whole generation was slaughtered on those fields. Unlike many war memorials this one was created by those going to war. A similar site exists in the Salisbury training area with American divisional badges from World War II but is not accessible since it is still a military training area.

This was as we were driving into Fovant to see the cap badges. I think it's interesting because you can see the various road signs and street markings.