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Guided tour of Avebury Manor Garden 

Join a tour of the beautiful Avebury Manor Garden with Head Gardener Garry to learn about seasonal highlights, a varied history, and exciting new developments in the historic garden rooms.

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21 Aug to 18 Sep 2025
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10:00 to 11:30
+ 1 other date or time

Museum trail: spot the cow 

Visit the Alexander Keiller Museum to learn more about Avebury, and try becoming a museum detective on a free trail.

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21 Aug to 31 Aug 2025
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10:00 to 16:00
+ 10 other dates or times

Avebury Adventures: exploring Avebury through locative games 

Take part in an exciting new gaming experience. Locative games use mixed-reality (elements in the digital and real world) to help you see familiar places in a whole new way. Download and play unique new games to discover more about Avebury.

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21 Aug to 31 Aug 2025
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10:00 to 17:00
+ 10 other dates or times

Summer of Play at Avebury 

Join us at Avebury for a fun summer of play. Families can take part in a lots of free activities to keep them entertained all summer long.

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21 Aug to 31 Aug 2025
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10:00 to 17:00
+ 10 other dates or times

Summer of play: build your own obstacle course 

Challenge yourself to build and complete a nature obstacle course. What can you create? See how fast you can jump, wobble, and weave!

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21 Aug to 30 Sep 2025
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10:00 to 17:00
+ 40 other dates or times

Sculpture exhibition in Avebury Manor Garden 

This autumn, the garden at Avebury Manor becomes an outdoor gallery, hosting a range of beautiful sculptures and artwork set against the backdrop of colourful seasonal planting.

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30 Aug to 19 Oct 2025
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10:00 to 17:00
+ 50 other dates or times

Walking the landscape: residency exhibition 

As 2025 National Trust Avebury artist in residence, Sarah Hobley has spent the year exploring the Avebury landscape through a series of short walks. The experience has been recorded on the pots in this special exhibition.

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6 Sep to 2 Nov 2025
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10:00 to 17:00
+ 57 other dates or times

Guided walk with Sarah Hobley, artist in residence 

Join a short, relaxed, and free art walk to look with new eyes at the textures, colours, atmosphere of natural and created Avebury.

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11 Sep 2025
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10:30 to 12:00

Heritage Open Days: Free entry days 

As part of Heritage Open Days 2025, you can enjoy a visit to Avebury Manor Garden and the Alexander Keiller Museum for free on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 September.

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12 Sep to 13 Sep 2025
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10:00 to 17:00
+ 1 other date or time

Avebury foraging workshop 

Discover nature's wild food secrets on a foraging course with forager-herbalist Fred Gillam from The Wild Side of Life. Walk through the Avebury landscape and learn to identify and use the plants and fungi growing in our hedgerows, fields and woods.

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13 Sep 2025
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10:30 to 15:00

Guided landscape walk: Waden Hill circuit 

You can discover more of the history of the landscape that surrounds Avebury on this guided walk.

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26 Sep 2025
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13:30 to 16:00

Art demonstration with Sarah Hobley, artist in residence 

See Sarah Hobley demonstrating the creative process of her sculpted ceramics and find out more about her Avebury project. The finished pieces will evoke the experience of walking the Avebury landscape throughout the year.

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8 Oct 2025
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11:00 to 14:00

October half term fun 

Visit Avebury for family fun over the October half term.

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23 Oct to 2 Nov 2025
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10:00 to 16:00
+ 10 other dates or times

Christmas at Avebury Manor 

Return to Avebury Manor this Christmas for decorations, lights, and festive memories as the doors open for the first time since January 2024.

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29 Nov 2025 to 4 Jan 2026
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11:00 to 16:00
+ 36 other dates or times

Christmas Market at Avebury 

Why not do some Christmas shopping at a selection of local gift stalls at Avebury? Browse a range of artisanal products while listening to carols and festive music.

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6 Dec to 7 Dec 2025
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10:00 to 16:00
+ 1 other date or time

Story time with St. Nicholas 

Enter the festively decorated Dovecote to meet St. Nicholas, hear a special Christmas story, and receive a Christmas gift.

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6 Dec to 21 Dec 2025
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10:20 to 10:40
+ 47 other dates or times

Winter walk with an archaeologist 

Join a winter walk around the Avebury henge with Dr Nick Snashall, National Trust archaeologist for the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site

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16 Dec 2025
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10:30 to 12:30