That's a vacuous comment Pete. You and I both know that, as a general rule, thousands of people are at Avebury and Stonehenge at the right time every year to observe and celebrate the solstices and equinoxes (not to mention other pre-Christian days of importance). And by the way (re: your comment below where you say, "All other religions have set dates and times. Xtians don't say "The nearest Saturday to Christmas"), I would remind you that in fact Christians do not have the same date for Easter each year, and although you may be a able to tell me the date of next year's Christmas I bet without looking at your calendar you can't tell me the date of next Easter ;-) Further, Easter is celebrated at different times by the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic/Anglican Churches; while the date of Christ's birth itself is still a matter of disagreement. Time and time again on this Forum people enquire as to the exact date of a solstice or full moon. A few people got the date of the winter solstice wrong this year - so what? As I said above, that's a drop in the ocean to the thousands who do turn up every year at the right time and now have nowhere to overnight unless they're lucky enough to have booked into one of the few B&Bs at Avebury. That is the important point, and the authorities, who should be coming to grips with the issue, have yet again sidestepped it (I suspect due to a small but powerful lobby of Avebury residents).

Because Avebury is not only a World Heritage Site visited by thousands of people each year it is also a place of pilgrimage for many others; you and a handful of Avebury residents may not like the idea that it is a place of pilgrimage but it's a fact. Like it or not, both the relevant authorities and the Avebury residents will have to come to terms with the ever increasing number of visitors and pilgrims to the Site and provide them with the facilities they both need and are entitled to.