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Humanity's relationship with the living world.
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The eight festivals and the turning wheel.
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History and living practice of the nature-based tradition.
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Academic and experiential perspectives on pagan paths.
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Stone circles, barrows, and ancestral landscapes.
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Pattern, proportion, and the language of nature.
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Track the turning wheel, sync festivals to your personal calendar, and follow the live rhythms of sun and moon.
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Members get a personal calendar with sync, progress tracking, and seasonal content tailored to their journey.
Begin the PathStructured courses, interactive tutorials, reference materials, and research tools for deeper study.
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The Oak School
Structured courses on archaeology, folklore, and nature practice.
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Interactive compass-and-straightedge tutorials.
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A–Z reference of terms, sites, and concepts.
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Downloadable guides for visiting sacred sites.
Ancestry of Place
Visual timelines tracing sacred site history.
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Data downloads, bibliographies, and citations.
Two interactive maps that connect land and sky. Discover sacred sites on the ground and the astronomical alignments that shaped how they were built.
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The Land Map
200+ sitesOver 200 ancient sites mapped across Britain, Ireland, and beyond. Filter by type, search by name, and discover sites near you.
Sacred Trails
10 trails10 curated walking routes linking sacred sites into pilgrimages — from gentle Cotswold barrows to epic Hebridean quests. Complete a trail to earn its badge.
The Night Sky
InteractiveAn interactive star chart linking constellations to sacred sites through solstice sunrises, lunar standstills, and stellar alignments. See the sky the ancient builders watched.
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Discussion forum and community hub.
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Passport
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Community photographs of sacred sites.
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The Challenge
Your personal record of pilgrimage across the sacred landscape. Visit ancient monuments, check in with GPS, earn badges for your dedication, and complete trails that link the great sites of Britain. The stones remember those who return.
The Standing Stones Passport tracks your visits to sacred sites across Britain. Check in with GPS, earn badges for milestones and seasonal visits, complete curated trails, and climb the community leaderboard. Sign up as a supporter to begin.
Verify your visit with location data when you stand at a sacred site. Your passport fills as you travel.
Unlock 30 badges across milestones, trails, seasons, and special conditions. How many can you collect?
Follow curated routes linking related sites. From the Avebury Landscape to the Outer Hebrides, each trail tells a story.
The Gamification System
The Challenge turns sacred site exploration into a rewarding journey. Every visit counts. Every trail completed marks a chapter in your personal pilgrimage. The system rewards not just numbers, but depth: seasonal visits, dawn check-ins, and long streaks all earn special recognition.
Travel to any of the sacred sites on our map. Stone circles, standing stones, holy wells, and ancient monuments across Britain and Ireland.
Use GPS verification when you are at the site, or upload a photograph as proof of your visit. Add personal notes and reflections.
Unlock badges for milestones, trail completions, seasonal visits, and special conditions. From Common to Legendary rarity.
Follow curated routes that link related sites into meaningful journeys. Each completed trail earns a unique badge and leaderboard points.
Earned by visiting increasing numbers of unique sites. From your First Stone to Megalith Master at 100.
6 badgesOne badge for each completed trail. Visit every site on a trail to earn its unique badge.
10 badgesCheck in during solstices, equinoxes, Samhain, or Beltane to earn these time-locked badges.
4 badgesDawn check-ins, night visits, and long streaks. These reward the most dedicated pilgrims.
5 badgesCurated routes linking the great sacred sites into meaningful pilgrimages
Wiltshire, England
A gentle circuit through the greatest Neolithic complex in Europe. Walk among the stones of Avebury, enter the chambers of West Kennet, and stand before the enigmatic mass of Silbury Hill.
Pembrokeshire, Wales
Trace the origin of Stonehenge's bluestones through the wild Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire. From the dolmen of Pentre Ifan to the angelic summit of Carn Ingli, this trail crosses some of Wales's most sacred ground.
Orkney, Scotland
Experience the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. The Ring of Brodgar, Maeshowe, and the Stones of Stenness form a sacred triangle on the narrow isthmus between two lochs.
Argyll, Scotland
Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. A linear cemetery of cairns, standing stones, rock art, and stone circles stretches through Kilmartin Glen in Argyll — over 800 monuments in six miles.
Wiltshire & Somerset, England
Connect the three great sacred sites of southern England: Stonehenge, Avebury, and Glastonbury. A pilgrimage through Wessex's chalk downland and Somerset levels, linking the monuments that define British prehistory.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
A true pilgrimage to the standing stones of the Outer Hebrides. The cruciform setting of Callanish is just the beginning — the Isle of Lewis holds dozens of stone circles, brochs, and ancient sites scattered across peat moorland and Atlantic coastline.
30 badges across milestones, trails, seasons, and special achievements
Check in at your first sacred site
Visit 5 unique sacred sites
Visit 10 unique sacred sites
Visit 25 unique sacred sites
Visit 50 unique sacred sites
Visit 100 unique sacred sites
Complete The Avebury Landscape trail
Complete the Preseli Bluestone Trail
Complete The Orkney Heart trail
Complete the Kilmartin Glen trail
Complete the Dartmoor Stone Rows trail
Complete The Wessex Triangle trail
The most dedicated pilgrims of the sacred landscape
Become a supporter to appear on the leaderboard and track your ranking.
Education
The Standing Stones Challenge is designed to work for educational groups, youth organisations, and community walking groups. Teachers and group leaders can create a group passport that tracks collective progress across trails and sites.
Students visit the actual sites they study in class. Neolithic long barrows, Bronze Age stone circles, Iron Age hill forts. The passport system turns textbook knowledge into lived experience.
The Challenge connects history, geography, science (geology, ecology), art (sacred geometry, rock art), and PSHE (community, heritage, belonging) in a single outdoor activity.
No individual student accounts required. The group leader manages a single passport. Photo check-ins can be moderated before posting. All data stays within the group.
The Standing Stones Passport is available to all supporters of The Greene Man. Your support funds the ongoing development of the map, the trails database, and the community tools that make this project possible. In return, you receive full access to every feature: GPS check-in, badge earning, trail tracking, leaderboard placement, the community forum, the knowledge base, and more.
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