Stonehenge Free Festival

Short description: 1974–1984 UK music festival

Stonehenge Free Festival

Genre| Rock music
Dates| month of June – 21 June
Location(s)| Stonehenge in England
Years active| 1974 to 1984

The Stonehenge Free Festival was a British free festival from 1974 to 1984 held at the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in England during the month of June, and culminating with the summer solstice on or near 21 June. It emerged as the major free festival in the calendar after the violent suppression of the Windsor Free Festival in August 1974, with Wally Hope providing the impetus for its founding. By the 1980s, the festival had grown to be a major event, attracting up to 30,000 people in 1984.[1] The festival attendees were branded as hippies by the British press. This, along with the open drug use and sale, contributed to the increase in restrictions on access to Stonehenge, and fences were erected around the stones in 1977. The same year, police resurrected a moribund law against driving over grassland in order to levy fines against festival goers in motorised transport. The festival came to an end in 1985 following the infamous Battle of the Beanfield. What followed was several years of exclusion until the year 2000 when full access was restored.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Bands
* 2 See also
* 3 Bibliography
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Bands

## See also

* List of historic rock festivals
* List of jam band music festivals
* Phil Russell, aka Wally Hope, co-founder of the Stonehenge and Windsor free festivals.
* Council of British Druid Orders

## Bibliography

* McKay, George (1996) Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties: chapter one "The free festivals and fairs of Albion", chapter two "O life unlike to ours! Go for it! New Age travellers". London: Verso Books. ISBN 1-85984-028-0.

## References

1. ↑ History of the Stonehenge Free Festival :1972-1985.
2. ↑ "Summer solstice: How the Stonehenge battles faded". BBC News. 20 June 2014. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27405147.

## External links

* Stonehenge free festivals 1972-85 - An illustrated History
* Tash's Stonehenge Festival and "Exclusion Zone" photo galleries
* BBC 2004 Stonehenge "Festival History" article
* "Stonehenge Campaign"
* Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion by Andy Worthington (Alternative Albion, 2004)

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Stonehenge

Structure and
surroundings|

* Altar Stone
* Aubrey holes
* Bluestone
* Excavations at Stonehenge
* Heel Stone
* Heelstone Ditch
* Laser scanning at Stonehenge
* Q and R Holes
* Sarsen
* Station Stones
* Stonehenge Landscape
* Stonehenge road tunnel
* Trilithon
* Y and Z Holes

Replicas
and derivatives|

* Achill-henge
* America's Stonehenge
* Carhenge
* Foamhenge
* Maryhill Stonehenge
* Mystical Horizons
* Phonehenge West
* Stonehenge Aotearoa
* Stonehenge II
* Stonehenge replica (Odessa, Texas)
* Wally Wallington

Studies|

* Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge
* Stonehenge in its landscape
* Stonehenge Riverside Project
* Theories about Stonehenge
* The Salisbury Museum
* Wiltshire Museum

In culture|

* Battle of the Beanfield
* Bringing Back the Bluestones
* Polytantric Circle
* Stonehenge Free Festival

Concepts|

* Earth mysteries
* Megalithic architectural elements
* Mount Killaraus

* Category

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