# Stonehenge Cursus · Place

> Stonehenge Cursus is an earthwork (cursus).

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Place · earthwork (cursus)

# Stonehenge Cursus

[51.1867° N, 1.8249° W]

Stonehenge Cursus is an earthwork (cursus).

Outline as mapped in OpenStreetMap (way 38528246), about 2.7 km long; its banks are faint and the tracing is from aerial imagery.

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Exact position

## Nearby within 500 km

[The Avenue: first straight stretch](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWPD4Y3VEY/the-avenue-first-straight-stretch)

earthwork (banked avenue)

here

[Heel Stone (Stone 96)](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWPBP27QAW/heel-stone-stone-96)

stone

here

[Slaughter Stone (Stone 95)](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWPBXW6841/slaughter-stone-stone-95)

stone

here

[Bluestone horseshoe (stones mapped inside the trilithons)](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWPB6E56J0/bluestone-horseshoe-stones-mapped-inside-the-trilithons)

stone setting

here

[Bluestone circle](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWPAYM0TY3/bluestone-circle)

stone setting

here

[Sarsen circle](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CRWPAF01699/sarsen-circle)

stone setting

here

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). Stonehenge Cursus [Place PLC0CRWPDWC4XKE]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0CRWPDWC4XKE
```

Key

**PLC** 0CRWPDWC4XKE

Record

Place

Kind

Earthwork (cursus)

Position

51.1867° N, 1.8249° W

Precision

Exact position

Version

2

Added by

[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)

[ Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7619217)

**How this page is made.** The position and its precision are the record's, checked against OpenStreetMap and Wikidata; the map is drawn from Natural Earth. Everything else is the site's own record of what happened here. Six other places on the site lie within 500 km.

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