Country diary: This is Dorset’s worst-located stone circle – but Nine Stones is well worth a visit | Sara Hudston
Winterbourne Abbas : These bronze age megaliths have hosted rituals and seen off electricity pylons. Today they endure by the side of an A-road The Nine Stones at Winterbourne Abbas have an inglorious setting. Hard by the A35, there are only slim iron railings and a small ditch to shield the circle from the heavy traffic rumbling west. And for about six months of the year the ditch flows with water (the winter…