RE: Stonehenge News

["Barclay, Peter" <BarclayP@lee-dns1.army.mil>]

Poster: "Barclay, Peter" <BarclayP@lee-dns1.army.mil>

Just a note to all reading about Stonehenge...

	Don't be worried about the "long" walk anyone visiting may have to
endure.  

	3 KM is not 5 miles.   Rather 5 KM is approximately 3 miles.   

1 KM is .62 mile.

			Terafan
CPT Peter C Barclay                         barclayp@lee-dns1.army.mil
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>From: 	Sharon Henderson[SMTP:sharon@intercon.com]
>Sent: 	Friday, October 04, 1996 9:31AM
>To: 	atlantia@csc.ncsu.edu; dragon@portcullis.maxson.com
>Subject: 	Stonehenge News
>
>
>Poster: "Sharon Henderson" <sharon@intercon.com>
>
>Noble Cousins,
>
>	I bethought me to share this piece of heartening news with all of you,
>
>sent to me this morning by the good and gracious Master Ioseph of
>Locksley, 
>who did receive it from some other gentle.  Some of you may have seen
>the 
>original note that came down the rumor mill, to wit: that the British 
>government was going to allow a theme park to be created around
>Stonehenge. <
>gack!>  Apparently, the opposite is true, as you will see below.
>
>	It is comforting to hear news like this, for a change! :-)
>
>	Blessings,
>	Meli
>
>
>
>------ Forwarded Message
>
>About a month or so ago, someone (I *think* it was Skadi) posted a
>message
>about the British Government planning to make a "theme park" a
>Stonehenge.
>There was an e-mail address to send comments to, so I did. Guess what!
>I
>actually got a response from someone at The Department of National
>Heritage! (It wasn't a "form letter", either...It specifically
>addressed
>some of the items I expressed in my message to them) Anyway, for those
>who
>might be interested, here is what the letter said:
>
>"Stonehenge is, of course, Britain's most important pre-historic
>monument
>as well as being a World Heritage Site, and the Secretary of State for
>National Heritage is personally determined to ensure that decisions
>over
>its future presentation are right. English Heritage manage the site on
>this
>Department's behalf. Far from commercialising the site, their overall
>and
>long-term aim-The Stonehenge Millenium Scheme-is to return this great
>archeological landscape to its original chalk downland and to allow the
>public to explore the Stones and other nearby monuments freely and in
>safety. this can only be achieved by removing local roads, the existing
>but
>inadequate visitor centre and all other 20th century clutter in the
>vicinity of the Stones."
>
>The letter continued...Basically, what the British Government is
>planning
>is to move all the parking areas and visitor information buildings 3km
>(roughly 5 miles) from the Stones, and outside the Site altogether. The
>only problem is, English Heritage has yet to submit any proposals for
>the
>development.
>
>Personally, I think this might actually be a good idea, if it is done
>the
>way this letter presented the scheme.
>
>------ End of Forwarded Message
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