www.stonehenge.run running tours by Chalkland Tours Ltd
Running Tours of the Stonehenge Landscape
See why Stonehenge is at the centre of a ceremonial landscape that stretches back 5000 years before Stonehenge was even started and didn't finish until 1000 years after Stonehenge was finished.
Run 3 hours at sunrise around the landscape. Typically between 8 and 15 Miles. Surrounded by hundreds of ancient monuments.
Flat rate for an entire group (we only ever do one group at once) whether it's 1 person or our maximum 4.
Pick-up in a car from as far away as London or Bristol early in the morning and be back at your hotel by mid-morning.
www.stonehenge.run is the running website for Chalkland Tours Ltd. Chalkland tours is a small tour company run by a husband and wife team with one guide Brendan. When you click to book you will be directed to our booking system at www.chalklandtours.com
Brendan has been running around the Stonehenge Landscape for years (Stonehenge is less than a 20-minute run from home!) and has seen it in different lights and seasons thousands of times. He also has a sizeable library of monographs and excavation reports on everything to do with the Stonehenge Landscape and tries to go to as many symposiums and public meetings as possible where the current experts on Stonehenge are speaking, and the rare occasion that an archaeological dig is occurring to go take a look!
Brendan is also a keen ultra and marathon runner and tries to do at least 3/4 each year.
Only ever your group up to 4 people. (With 4 people our guide Brendan can hear everyone whilst chatting on the and individually address everyone's interests).
Brendan is also an Athletics England Coach in Running Fitness and can always give you pointers on your training or running technique whilst also explaining the thousands of years of history of the Stonehenge Landscape.
Instant online booking, with the same person who wrote this copy giving you the tour!
Pickup within a very wide area stretching from Bristol across to London. Pick-up from around 4:45 in midsummer to 6:45 in midwinter, depending on how far away you are in driving distance from Stonehenge.
Choose the date you want and see Stonehenge in it's natural landscape devoid of crowds.
We only do private tours where you book the whole vehicle and can take up to 4 passengers from a wide area, from as far away as Bristol and Bath to the west and London in the East. We pick up early in the morning, aiming to be running just before sunrise. Pickup times change according to the season. No matter what the season we aim to have you back at your pickup location by midmorning.
We also offer a special discount when you can start the run from Amesbury itself and don't need any transport in our peoplemover to get here!
The landscape around Stonehenge is by far best seen at sunrise where the low sunlight casts long shadows and shows up the hundreds of burial mounds and other ancient monuments in the landscape around Stonehenge. : We go if it's bright sunshine or freshly fallen snow! No matter what the weather. In fact, the depths of winter are one of the best times to see Stonehenge and its landscape, the grass is low, and the natural geological processes of freeze and thaw on the chalk landscape are much more apparent. If it's especially wet but not freezing cold you might be lucky enough to see the course of some of the small streams that used to cut across the landscape when the water table was much higher, which probably had a great influence on the builders of Stonehenge in choosing this site.
See the vast 2300 acres of the Stonehenge landscape whilst enjoying a fantastic trail run on many mixed types of trails and open fields. Brendan your guide will talk to you about the context of the whole landscape its many burial mounds and other monuments and keep you up to date with the latest research and publications on the Stonehenge Landscape. We have a number of maps and diagrams to show you during the tour so you can really see where you are standing in the landscape and understand it in context.
The history stretches from hunter-gatherers some 10000 years ago, through the Neolithic and the building of Stonehenge, Bronze Age, Iron Age, roman period, anglo saxon Age medieval times, early modern and the escape of Charles the Second after the Civil War, and even through to the first and second world wars and the almost contemporary history of the Stonehenge Free Festival, Battle of the Beanfield and through to the present day.
Book now for £300 (flat rate for a private group of up to 4 people) with transport at www.chalklandtours.com
Running tours of the Stonehenge Landscape in 3 hours
Choose different types of runs by how far you would like to run or your particular interest.
We aim for the runs to be around 3 hours long and done at a relaxed 30-35 minute 5 km pace, think of it as an ultra-marathon talking pace. However, the runs can be done faster or slower depending on the desire of the runner/runners and how much time we spend stopped talking and explaining different aspects of the landscape at different spots.
The circa three hours that you have is yours to see what you would like to see of the landscape early in the morning devoid of people, different types of runs should be seen as guidelines rather than a definitive list of what we'll run past as with small groups of 1-4 people all within one private group we can be very flexible to tailor to your interests and desired running pace.
Routes also change depending on the weather conditions and whether livestock are in fields or not, there are many different combinations of what your route could be, and almost always a way around if a route is blocked. Treat what you could see on the different length tour examples a guide to what you might like to see on the day and what pace you would like to run at.
The different run lengths below serve as examples of what you might be able to see depending on how far you would like to run.
We love being flexible running around the Stonehenge landscape and are keen to fit in what you would like to see within the three hours.
5 Mile Highlights
Get a taste of the Stonehenge landscape routes could include: Stonehenge, Woodhenge, kings barrow ridge or Normanton down barrows.
Go around the rim of the Stonehenge landscape and see most of the monuments that look down onto stonehenge: Cursus, Kings barrow ridge, cursus barrows, Normanton down barrows
Take a run around most of the Stonehenge landscape at this distance you can also have some surprise views where Stonehenge appears over the horizon and also explore more of the later history of the Stonehenge landscape.
With around this distance, you can see almost everything from Stonehenge to the Cuckoo store and Durrington walls, Winterbourne Stoke Barrows, and the Kings Barrow Ridge.
