The Long Barrow at All Cannings is a modern barrow and place of druid worship near Devizes, in Wiltshire, the first barrow to be constructed in England for 5,500 years.[1][2]
Commissioned by the farmer and Stonehenge steward Timothy Daw,[3] and completed in 2014, it took just under nine months to build, at a cost of £200,000.[1]
Scattering Ashes
The barrow contains four large chambers under an earthern mound, each housing 55 niches, each of which can hold 4 or 5 urns containing cremated human remains. A smaller “secret” chamber is able to house single urns in smaller niches.[1] As at 2025, a standard niche able to house five sets of ashes costs £1,200 on a 99-year lease.[4]
The barrow is aligned with the sunrise on the Winter Solstice on 21 December.[1] In 2018 it became only the second building registered by the Home Office for the purpose of worship for druids,[2][a]The Southfield Temple of Druidic Worship, on the ground floor of a terraced house in Lancashire, is the only other structure so registered.[2] and it has triggered a revival of barrow-building in England.[5]
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| a | The Southfield Temple of Druidic Worship, on the ground floor of a terraced house in Lancashire, is the only other structure so registered.[2] |
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