Stonehenge Guided Tours

English Heritage opened the site for those celebrating the end of the longest night of the year. The sun rose over Stonehenge at 08:11 GMT.

Crowds brave the Wiltshire cold to watch the sun rise after the longest night of the year

• Around 5,000 people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire to mark the winter solstice on Sunday morning
  English Heritage opened the ancient Neolithic site to those celebrating end of the longest night of the year
  The winter solstice occurs around December 21, when the North Pole is tilted farthest away from the Sun

Jenny Davies, from English Heritage, said about 5,000 people had come, ranging from pagans and Druid groups, families and tourists.

The solstice marks the symbolic death and rebirth of the sun, and begins the gradual lengthening of days and shortening of nights.

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