Crop circles

51 places across Britain and Ireland

• Alfred's Castle PairAlfred's Castle, near Ashbury, Oxfordshire · Two formations on either side of a tiny Iron Age fort.
• Avebury Avenue StarBetween the West Kennet Avenue and the Ridgeway, Wiltshire · A ten-pointed star beside the stone avenue, mown down within a day.
• Avebury Rings 2026By the henge near Green Street, Avebury, Wiltshire · A classic pattern of circles and rings beside the great stone circle.
• Badbury Rings PentagramBadbury Rings, near Shapwick, Dorset · A five-armed pattern below an Iron Age hillfort.
• Barbury Castle PiNear Wroughton, Wiltshire · A spiral below a hillfort that turned out to spell the number pi.
• Bondip Hill CrossNear Ilchester, Somerset · The first UK crop circle of 2026, in bright yellow rape.
• Broad Hinton SpinnerBelow Hackpen Hill, Wiltshire · The first crop circle of the 2023 season, a six-armed spinner.
• Cake Wood HexagonCake Wood, near Froxfield, Wiltshire · A hexagon of bars and triangles with a sense of spin.
• Castley Hill TwinsNear Somerton, Somerset · Two circles in two neighbouring fields of two different crops.
• Cheesefoot HeadNear Winchester, Hampshire · The bowl in the downs where two pensioners say the whole thing began.
• Combe Hill SpiralNear Bratton, Wiltshire · A huge five-fold spiral on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
• Ditcheat WheelNear Pennard Hill, Somerset · The first wheat circle of 2026, shaped like an ancient goddess's wheel.
• East Field, Alton BarnesVale of Pewsey, Wiltshire · The overnight pictogram that made crop circles world news.
• Etchilhampton Wildflower CircleEtchilhampton Hill, near Devizes, Wiltshire · A rare circle laid in a field of poppies and wildflowers, crossing a hedge line.
• Fox Hill PictogramNear Liddington, Wiltshire · A 300-foot throwback to the famous Alton Barnes pictogram of 1990.
• Great Wishford TripleNear Grovely Wood, Great Wishford, Wiltshire · A three-fold design with three 'eyes', soon cut out by the farmer.
• Hackpen HillNear Broad Hinton, Wiltshire · A chalk white horse looking down on one of the busiest crop circle hills.
• Jack's Plantation StarBelow King Alfred's Tower, near Bruton, Somerset · A five-armed star in barley, almost in the shadow of King Alfred's Tower.
• Kingsdon FlowerBondip Hill, Kingsdon, Somerset · An eight-petalled flower with a woven centre, near Ilchester.
• Kingweston Solstice CircleNear Kingweston House, Somerset · An eight-fold design with four 'eyes', found on midsummer's day.
• Kingweston SpinnerNear Snap Hill, Kingweston, Somerset · A six-armed spinner in young barley that grew over several days.
• Lay Wood SerpentLay Wood, near Devizes, Wiltshire · Three linked circles that some saw as a coiled serpent.
• Ludwell Triple GoddessNear Win Green, Wiltshire · A waxing, full and waning moon in wheat, cut down the same day it was found.
• Milk Hill 2026Milk Hill, above Alton Barnes, Wiltshire · A new circle on the hill that hosted the famous 2001 Galaxy.
• Milk Hill GalaxyAlton Barnes, Wiltshire · A spiral galaxy of 409 circles, the biggest formation ever seen in Britain.
• Normanton Down SquareNear Normanton Down Barrows, Stonehenge, Wiltshire · A square formation beside a Bronze Age cemetery.
• Norton Bavant Flower of LifeNorton Plantation, near Norton Bavant, Wiltshire · An ancient 'Flower of Life' pattern appearing on 7/7.
• Oliver's CastleRoundway Down, near Devizes, Wiltshire · A home video of balls of light sweeping a crop circle into being.
• Roundway Star and CrescentRoundway Hill, near Devizes, Wiltshire · A rare thirteen-pointed star and crescent moon, with a woven floor.
• Tawsmead CopseNear West Stowell, Wiltshire · Two linked ring systems in a famous crop circle field.
• The Arecibo ReplyChilbolton, Hampshire · A coded 'answer' to a message humans beamed into space, next to a radio telescope.
• The Cerne Abbas SpiderNear Cerne Abbas, Dorset · A 'spider' formation that led to a police appeal.
• The Crabwood FaceNear Sparsholt, Winchester, Hampshire · An alien face holding a disc with a coded warning about 'false gifts'.
• The Fields Around SilburyNear Avebury, Wiltshire · The ancient mound that crop circle makers seem unable to stay away from.
• The Gallops KnotSutton Veny, near Warminster, Wiltshire · A woven Celtic knot inside a fenced horse gallop, open to visitors for charity.
• The Guildford Storm CirclesNear Guildford, Surrey · A Victorian scientist's letter about strange round patches in a wheatfield.
• The Ickleton MandelbrotIckleton, Cambridgeshire · A famous mathematical shape, drawn in wheat a few miles from Cambridge.
• The Julia SetOpposite Stonehenge, Wiltshire · A spiral of 151 circles said to have appeared in broad daylight.
• The Micheldever TwinsChilland Lane, near Winchester, Hampshire · Two different formations in one field on the same day.
• The Mowing-DevilHertfordshire · A 1678 pamphlet about a field of oats the Devil cut in perfect circles overnight.
• The Stoke Charity CubeStoke Charity, near Sutton Scotney, Hampshire · A hexagon of light and dark triangles that looked like a 3D cube.
• The Stonehenge StarfishNear the Stonehenge visitor centre, Wiltshire · A five-armed 'starfish' across the road from Stonehenge's visitors.
• Tidcombe StarBetween Silver Down and Maccombe Down, Tidcombe, Wiltshire · A six-armed star that seems to rise out of the field in 3D.
• Waden Hill DumbbellWaden Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire · A throwback to the 'dumbbells' of the early 1990s, between Silbury and Avebury.
• Ware Farm WheelWare, near Lyme Regis, Devon · Fifteen circles turning around a central disc, near the Jurassic Coast.
• Wayland's Smithy KnotNear Ashbury, Oxfordshire · A Celtic-style knot beside a 5,500-year-old tomb, cut out within two days.
• Westbury White Horse CirclesBratton Downs, Wiltshire · Three flattened circles below a chalk horse that started the national craze.
• White Sheet HillNear Mere, Wiltshire · A four-fold pattern that 'squares the circle', in line with Alfred's Tower.
• Wilton Windmill CircleWilton, near Marlborough, Wiltshire · A 330-foot design with a tail of circles, beside Wiltshire's only working windmill.
• Wimborne RingNear Wimborne Minster, Dorset · A surprise April circle in bright yellow oilseed rape.
• Windmill Hill Triple Julia SetNear Avebury, Wiltshire · Three spiral arms of 194 circles, weeks after the Stonehenge Julia Set.