There is no direct train to Avebury, and it is two hours each way by road. That single fact shapes every London departure: an early start, a long day, and almost always a second monument to justify the distance.
Victoria at nine on a sixteen-seat mini-coach, then the circle, Lacock and two hours in Bath. Admission fees are yours; the day is otherwise a straight run.
From $120 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Earl's Court at half past eight, back the same evening. Two hours in the circle, a chambered tomb and Stonehenge with the admission already paid.
From $134 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The one that gets you inside the Stonehenge circle, after hours. Two hours at Avebury come first. A final sale, so choose your date carefully.
From $213 per person
Final sale — this one is not refundable, so fix your date before you book.
Eleven hours from Marble Arch with two admissions already covered, Stonehenge and the Roman Baths, plus a guided walk in Lacock. The Avebury stop is a brisk half hour, so take it for breadth.
From $256 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A private vehicle collects you from your London hotel door for nine hours and five monuments, including two full hours among the stones. Wheelchair accessible, with bottled water and the fuel surcharge included.
From $1,093 per group, up to 8
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A private ten-hour run out of London on the lanes a coach cannot use, calling at Avebury, Lacock and Castle Combe before two hours in Bath. Seven seats and a single fare for the vehicle.
From $1,513 per group, up to 7
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eleven hours from London with a working archaeologist in the car and a separate driver at the wheel, taking in Bath and the long barrow as well as both circles. Parking is in the fare.
From $1,781 per group, up to 6
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The Salisbury version of the archaeologist-led day, giving you two hours at the cathedral and its copy of Magna Carta in place of Bath, then an hour among the Avebury stones.
From $1,781 per group, up to 6
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Board at Earl's Court, Marble Arch or Victoria, or take a private car that collects you from your hotel. Check dates and live availability.
Check AvailabilityA nine-to-eleven-hour day, of which four hours are the road. The coaches leave central London between half past seven and half past nine, run out along the M4 or the A4, and work a circuit of Wiltshire before coming back the same evening.
Every one of them pairs Avebury with something else, because nobody drives two hours to spend forty-five minutes in a field. Usually that is Stonehenge, seventeen miles away. Sometimes it is Bath, Lacock or the Roman Baths. The Earl's Court day trip is the one that keeps the focus on the Neolithic and adds West Kennet Long Barrow instead of a city.
Two hours each way, no direct train, and a change at Swindon onto a rural bus. Public transport can do it, but it consumes the whole day for one monument — the arithmetic is in getting to Avebury without a car.
Stonehenge is ticketed and timed; Avebury is free. Three London departures include the Stonehenge admission in the fare, which removes the only real ticket cost of the day and changes which one is genuinely cheapest.
Silbury Hill and West Kennet Long Barrow sit on the A4 with no bus service and no pavement. Several London routes reach them; no public transport does.
The evening special-access departure is sold on exactly that, and it gives you two hours at Avebury first. It is a final sale, so the date has to be right before you pay.
If you have a choice of base, this is the comparison that matters most. Bath is under an hour from the stones and London is two, so the same nine-hour day contains very different amounts of sightseeing.
| From London | From Bath | |
|---|---|---|
| Road time | About 2 hours each way | Under 1 hour each way |
| Day length | 9–11 hours | 8.5–9 hours |
| Time at Avebury | 30 minutes to 2 hours | 1.5 hours |
| Stonehenge ticket included | On three of the eight | On neither |
| Usual pairing | Stonehenge, the long barrow, Bath | Cotswold villages |
| Fare from | $120 per person | $103 per person |
| Best for | Anyone based in London with no car | Anyone already in the West Country |
Early starts, long days, and on three of these tours the Stonehenge admission is already paid for.
Check AvailabilityYou get the transport, a guide with live commentary, and a fixed boarding point in central London. On three departures the Stonehenge admission is included; on two the Roman Baths admission is too.
You don't get lunch on any of them, hotel pickup on the coach days, or any charge at Avebury — because there is none. The one thing to check on every card is whether the Stonehenge fee is in the fare or paid at the gate.
Fares: $120 to $257 per person on the group departures, $1,094 to $1,782 per vehicle on the private ones. Departure times: 7:30am to 9:30am, with the evening access day meeting later in high summer. Boarding points: Earl's Court (Warwick Road), Marble Arch (the Cumberland) and Victoria (Greenline coach station).
Group size: sixteen on the mini-coaches, twenty-five to thirty on the full coaches, six to eight on the private cars. Allow ten minutes to find the stop: none of them has a ticket desk or a branded office, and one traveller reports nearly missing the coach over exactly that.
Anyone staying in Bath, Salisbury or Somerset. From Bath the same day costs less and spends two more hours out of the vehicle; from Salisbury a six-hour tour covers the circle, Stonehenge and the long barrow. Starting from London when you are not in London is paying for four hours of motorway you did not need.
Anyone whose reason for coming is Avebury itself should also look west. The longest stay at the stones on any London departure is two hours; the Glastonbury day gives four. And if you want to walk the circle at first light or last light, no guided day of any kind can do that — drive, and read what each month does first.
If you are weighing London against doing it yourself, the honest comparison is in that guide, and every departure from every city sits on Avebury Tours.