Stonehenge

Definitions

1. An ancient group of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Amesbury parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1242).
2. A number of localities elsewhere:
3. A rural municipality in south Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge No. 73.
4. A town in Saint James parish, Jamaica.
5. A locality in Australia:
6. A locality in the Glen Innes Severn council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
7. An outback town in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland.
8. A rural locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland.
9. A rural locality in Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania.

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Examples

“The collection of rocks is a national landmark that looks something like⟳ a Stonehenge on the prairie.”

“Within weeks of winning the General Election in July 2024, the government halted a planned tunnel for the A303 past Stonehenge in Wiltshire. It stated that the £2 billion scheme was "poor value for money". […] The West of England line carries a tiny fraction of the volumes on the parallel road [A303], and Stonehenge is a nationally notorious bottleneck.”

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