There is more to be said, but I answered an earlier post here some time ago asking about the ways in which Stonehenge was perceived over the centuries, and actually we have very little information indeed about responses to ancient monuments other than that one in England before the 1500s. You might like to review that response while you wait for fresh ones:
What did other periods in the history of the British isles think of stone henge?
There is one other prehistoric structure in England whose existence tells us something (albeit mutely) about the degree of importance that the local people must have attached to it simply for it to have survived, and that is the White Horse carved into the chalk downs at Uffington. I discussed how that may have been thought about in another post, here: