I RUN a bed and breakfast four miles from Stonehenge. My guests often wish to walk across the downs to the monument.

There, despite proof of booking, they are refused admission, and compelled to travel the further mile to the visitor centre, where they must register, before returning to complete their visit. All this is confirmed by my correspondence with English Heritage.

My recent Swiss guests wished to make their visit to Stonehenge as trouble free as possible and checked out the details by attending the Visitor Centre a day before. A £5 parking fee was demanded at which point they turned round and left as did some people in front of them. They had a very enjoyable trip to Avebury, and walked to Stonehenge two days later, viewing it over the fence, thus avoiding exorbitant entrance fees.

It is sad that a monument that was left to the nation is becoming increasingly difficult to access and the tunnel, which our MP mistakenly tells us locals all want, will simply make Stonehenge invisible to a large majority of the population. Why not move it lock, stock and barrel to Imber, where the Army could guard it, and it could be opened once or twice a year?

M MERTENS Berwick St James