Starting in around the 14th century, locals began dismantling the stone circles for one reason or another: to clear land, to provide material for other building projects, or simply to efface a pagan monument.

In 1872, the banker and Liberal MP, Sir John Lubbock, bought part of the village and protected the monuments.

In 1986 UNESCO added Avebury, along with Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, and associated local sites, to its World Heritage List.

[5] The earliest occupied site in the area is on Windmill Hill in the north-west of the parish, where a causewayed enclosure with three concentric ditches was built c.3700 BC on an earlier field system.

Kennet Avenue runs south-east for about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) from the south entrance of the henge to Overton Hill, just beyond West Kennett hamlet.

[8] Other prehistoric sites in the parish include Silbury Hill, south of the henge, a chalk and earth mound about 40 metres (130 ft) high.

In 1377 there were 134 poll-tax payers in the village, making it one of the largest settlements in Selkley hundred, together with 31 at Beckhampton and 24 at West Kennet.

The college exchanged the land with the Crown in 1545, and in 1547 the manor was granted to the courtier Sir William Sharington, who had extensive landholdings in Wiltshire and neighbouring counties.

[12] The house, Avebury Manor, was bought in 1955 by Sir Francis Knowles, who restored it and began to open it to the public in 1956.

The Victoria County History traces the later owners including Alexander Keiller, who bought a farm in the 1920s and sold it to the National Trust in 1943.

[12] The house known as Trusloe Manor began as a rebuilding c.1520, was later reduced in size to four bays, and in the 1980s gained a large rear wing.

[16] The River Kennet flows south through the parish, passing just west of Avebury village before turning east near Silbury Hill on its journey towards Marlborough.

[17] Higher ground includes Windmill Hill in the northwest corner of the parish, and Avebury Down in the east.

[21] Parts of this building survive, in quoins at the north-west corner and two small windows at the west end (now internal to the church), which had external shutters rather than glazing.

The lower part has an arcade of intersecting arches with a somewhat chaotic layout, while the upper decoration has foliage scrolls, two serpents or dragons, and a skirted figure which may be Saint Michael, holding a crozier.

[24] Monuments inside the church include an elaborate marble wall memorial to Susanna Holford (died 1772).

[25] The old tenor bell, cast in 1719 by Richard Phelps (born in Avebury and master of the Whitechapel foundry from 1701 to 1738) now strikes the hours.

[19] A heavy timber frame on low limestone walls, under a tiled roof, it is described by Historic England as a good example of its type.

In 1975 a team ministry was created for the area,[30] and today the parish is part of the Upper Kennet Benefice, alongside seven others around Avebury.

[37] Beckhampton House began c.1745 as a large coaching inn on the Bath road;[38] alterations in the 19th century included the addition of a stone porch.

[39] A nearby 17th-century house, two storeys in stone with a thatched roof, is now the Waggon and Horses pub; additions in the late 19th century and early 20th are described as picturesque by Historic England.

A three-storey house with a five-bay brick front and columned porch, it is described by Orbach as "rather urban Late Georgian".