Visit top-rated & must-see attractions. Join a guided tour, choosing from over 30 cellar doors tasting award-wining wines, or explore the Marlborough Sounds. Discover things to do in Marlborough. Close to where the Grand Avenue crosses the Three Oak Hill Drive is the Duke’s Vaunt Oak, dating back more than 1,000 years.And near Tottenham House, the King of Limbs is about the same age, and gave its name to the 2011 Radiohead album, partly recorded at the house.Part of the same UNESCO World Heritage Site as the better known Stonehenge, Avebury is a staggering Neolithic henge monument made up of three stone circles, one of which is the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.Work took place here across some 600 years during the third millennium BC, and although the meaning of this vast ensemble is unclear, it is thought to have been a place of rituals and ceremonies.The henge (earthwork bank and ditch) surround the entire site, hemmed by the largest circle more than 330 metres in diameter, with smaller northern (98 metres) and southern circles (108 metres) inside it.The southern ring is interrupted by the village of Avebury, which cropped up in Medieval times.As we see it today, Avebury owes a lot to the Scottish archaeologist Alexander Keiller who bought the site and restored it in the 1930s.There’s more recent but no less compelling history at this National Trust manor house, built in the 16th century.In the early 2010s nine of the manor’s rooms were redecorated in five different period styles: Tudor, Queen Anne, Georgian, Victorian and 20th century.The Tudor Dining Room for one has rush mat flooring and hand-crafted oak furniture, as it would have done when the widow Debora Dunch married Sir James Mervyn, the High Sheriff of Wiltshire here in the 1590s.Something to love about Avebury Manor is that visitors are encouraged to feel at home here, lying on beds, sitting on furniture, even using the table in the Billiard Room.One of the only things off limits is the gorgeous Chinoiserie wallpaper in the Georgian Dining Room.The formal garden is designed in a series of “rooms”, including a kitchen garden, orchard, topiary garden and a church garden with picnic blankets and steamer chairs that can be borrowed on sunny days.In the same UNESCO World Heritage Site as Avebury and Stonehenge is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe.Just shy of 40 metres high and 160 metres wide, Silbury Hill was completed around 2350 BC and though it was obviously an important site, its exact purpose is unknown as there is no sign of a burial here.The mound was formed over the course of just over 100 years, and would have required an amazing amount of coordination.It is thought that four million man-hours went into its construction, as well as half a million tons of chalk and soil.Also essential in Avebury is the parish church, which has an Anglo-Saxon nave from around the turn of the 11th century.High on the nave’s north wall you can see a row of three round-arched windows dating to that time.The Saxon chancel was demolished in the 13th century and then rebuilt in the 1870s, but an exquisite and rare detail survives at its entrance in the form of the 15th-century rood loft.This has painted and gilded panels, with trefoil arches holding steep crocketed gables and friezes depicting grapes and leaves.Ornamentation in this part of a church didn’t usually survive the Reformation, but the rood loft was kept hidden from the 16th century until 1810. We have reviews of the best places to see in Marlborough. We have reviews of the best places to see in New Marlborough. Marlborough is also a scenic city, with plenty of conservation areas, parks, trails and beaches for the outdoor lovers. Things to Do in Marlborough, Massachusetts: See Tripadvisor's 414 traveler reviews and photos of Marlborough tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in August. There’s a great deal of history to be found in the wall monuments, dating from the 1600s to the 1800s, while you can take a tour to climb the 139 steps in the tower.You’ll visit the priest’s room, ringing chamber (with a small exhibition about the church), the clock room, belfry with bell from 1741 and then the tower roof for a photo-worthy view up the High Street.The only privately owned forest in Britain belongs to the Marquess of Ailesbury but is essentially open to the public, closing on just one day a year.Blanketing 4,500 acres of hilly downland, Savernake Forest is made up mostly of oak and beech, and has dozens of veteran trees and some landscaping from the 18th century.The famous Capability Brown planted eight radial drives, one of which is the Grand Avenue, a 3.9-mile dead straight artery lined with beeches and officially the longest avenue in the UK.Many of the grander oaks and beeches were pollarded so their timber could be harvested across hundreds of years.One such specimen is the stately Big Belly Oak next to the A346.