List of hill figures in Wiltshire
A list of hill figures in Wiltshire.
White horse figures[]
Rank | Name | Location | Created | Age (years) | Width | Height | Image |
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1 | Westbury White Horse | Westbury | 1778[1] | 244 | 170 feet (52 m) | 180 feet (55 m) | |
2 | Cherhill White Horse | Cherhill | 1780 | 242 | 165 feet (50 m) | 120 feet (37 m) | |
3 | Marlborough White Horse | Preshute | 1804 | 218 | 62 feet (19 m) | 47 feet (14 m) | |
4 | Alton Barnes White Horse | Alton Barnes, near Alton | 1812 | 210 | 160 feet (49 m) | 180 feet (55 m) | |
5 | Hackpen White Horse | Broad Hinton | 1838 | 184 | 90 feet (27 m) | 90 feet (27 m) | |
6 | Broad Town White Horse | Broad Town | 1864 | 158 | 80 feet (24 m) | 60 feet (18 m) | |
7 | Pewsey White Horse | Pewsey | 1937 | 85 | 66 feet (20 m) | 45 feet (14 m) | |
8 | Devizes White Horse | Roundway | 1999 | 23 | 150 feet (46 m) | 148 feet (45 m) |
Military figures[]
Rank | Name | Location | Created | Age (years) | Width | Height | Image |
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1 | Fovant Badges | Fovant | 1916 | 106 | |||
2 | Royal Warwickshire Badge | Sutton Mandeville | 1916 | 106 | |||
3 | Shiny 7th Badge | Sutton Mandeville | 1916 | 106 | |||
4 | Lamb Down Military Badge | Codford | 1916–17 | 105 | 175 feet (53 m) | 150 feet (46 m) | |
5 | Map of Australia | Compton Down, near Compton Chamberlayne | 1917 | 105 | 150 feet (46 m) | About 125 feet (38 m) | |
6 | Bulford Kiwi | Bulford | 1919 | 103 | About 460 feet (140 m) | 420 feet (128 m) |
Others[]
Rank | Name | Location | Created | Age (years) | Width | Height | Image |
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1 | Tame Buzzard Line | New Art Centre, Salisbury | 2001 | 21 | 2.3 feet (0.7 m) | 115 feet (35.1 m)[2] | |
2 | Upavon Golf Club Pterodactyl | Upavon | 21st century | About 45 feet (14 m) | About 38 feet (12 m) | ||
3 | Devizes White Horse replica | Nursteed School, Devizes | 2012 | 10 | About 15 feet (5 m) | About 14.8 feet (5 m) |
Former figures[]
Rank | Name | Location | Created | Lost | Width | Height | Image |
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1 | Former Westbury White Horse | Westbury | Unknown (no later than 1742) | 1778 | 96 feet (29 m) | 32 feet (10 m) | |
2 | Former Pewsey White Horse | Pewsey | 1785 | 1937 | 43 feet (13 m) | Unknown | |
3 | Former Devizes White Horse | Devizes | 1845 | Around 1922 | Unknown | Unknown | |
4 | Ham Hill or Inkpen White Horse | Ham Hill near Inkpen, Berkshire | 1860s | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | |
5 | Finsbury Rifles Hurdcott Badge | Barford St Martin | 1910s | Unknown | |||
6 | Rockley White Horse | Rockley | Discovered 1948 | 20th century | 126 feet (38 m) | 66 feet (20 m) | |
7 | Laverstock Panda | Laverstock | 1969 | 1980s | 55 feet (17 m) | 55 feet (17 m) | |
8 | Marlborough Arrow | Marlborough | 1969 | 1969 | |||
9 | Tan Hill Donkey | Tan Hill | Unknown | 1970s | 75 feet (23 m) | Unknown | |
10 | Mock white horse on Battlesbury Hill | Warminster | 2006 | 2006 |
See also[]
- Bloemfontein, a city in South Africa where Wiltshire troops are believed to have cut the Bloemontein White Horse around 1900,[3] resulting in "the only Wiltshire white horse, that is not in Wiltshire"[4]
- Liddington, a village near Swindon once considered for a white horse.[5]
References[]
- ^ "WILTSHIRE'S WHITE HORSES". Visit Wiltshire. 2021. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
- ^ "Tame Buzzard Line". Art UK. 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
- ^ "Bloemfontein White Horse". The Hillfigure Homepage. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ "White Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein". South African History Online. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ "Designs that Were Never Made". The Hillfigure Homepage. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
External links[]
Categories:
- White horses in England
- Hill figures in England
- Horses in culture
- Horses in the United Kingdom