List of hill figures in Wiltshire

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The White Horse Flag, an unofficial flag of Wiltshire depicting the Cherhill White Horse.

A list of hill figures in Wiltshire.

White horse figures[]

Rank Name Location Created Age (years) Width Height Image
1 Westbury White Horse Westbury 1778[1] 244 170 feet (52 m) 180 feet (55 m) Paragliding above Westbury White Horse - geograph.org.uk - 539764.jpg
2 Cherhill White Horse Cherhill 1780 242 165 feet (50 m) 120 feet (37 m) Cherhill White Horse Juli 2015,3.jpg
3 Marlborough White Horse Preshute 1804 218 62 feet (19 m) 47 feet (14 m) White Horse, Preshute Hill, Marlborough - geograph.org.uk - 460740 (cropped).jpg
4 Alton Barnes White Horse Alton Barnes, near Alton 1812 210 160 feet (49 m) 180 feet (55 m) Alton Barnes White Horse - geograph.org.uk - 1744619.jpg
5 Hackpen White Horse Broad Hinton 1838 184 90 feet (27 m) 90 feet (27 m) Broad Hinton White Horse, Hackpen Hill - geograph.org.uk - 415006.jpg
6 Broad Town White Horse Broad Town 1864 158 80 feet (24 m) 60 feet (18 m) Broad Town White Horse, from Christ Church, Broad Town - geograph.org.uk - 1015494.jpg
7 Pewsey White Horse Pewsey 1937 85 66 feet (20 m) 45 feet (14 m) Pewsey White Horse.jpg
8 Devizes White Horse Roundway 1999 23 150 feet (46 m) 148 feet (45 m) Devizes White Horse (geograph 4250140).jpg

Military figures[]

Rank Name Location Created Age (years) Width Height Image
1 Fovant Badges Fovant 1916 106 Fovant Badges.jpg
2 Royal Warwickshire Badge Sutton Mandeville 1916 106 Royal Warwickshire WWI Emblem.jpg
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) 2011 , Australian military cap badge on Lamb Down or Misery Hill - geograph.org.uk - 2691090.jpg
5 Map of Australia Compton Down, near Compton Chamberlayne 1917 105 150 feet (46 m) About 125 feet (38 m) Map of Australia downland carving.jpg
6 Bulford Kiwi Bulford 1919 103 About 460 feet (140 m) 420 feet (128 m) Bulford Kiwi.JPG

Others[]

Rank Name Location Created Age (years) Width Height Image
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) Upavon Golf Course, Wiltshire, England (cropped).jpg
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
1 Former Westbury White Horse Westbury Unknown (no later than 1742) 1778 96 feet (29 m) 32 feet (10 m) Edington White Horses.jpg
2 Former Pewsey White Horse Pewsey 1785 1937 43 feet (13 m) Unknown
3 Former Devizes White Horse Devizes 1845 Around 1922 Unknown Unknown Farmland between Rowde and Roundway - geograph.org.uk - 186319.jpg
4 Ham Hill or Inkpen White Horse Ham Hill near Inkpen, Berkshire 1860s Unknown Unknown Unknown Ham Hill - geograph.org.uk - 243602.jpg
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) Cockey Down - geograph.org.uk - 151968.jpg
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[]

  1. ^ "WILTSHIRE'S WHITE HORSES". Visit Wiltshire. 2021. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  2. ^ "Tame Buzzard Line". Art UK. 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  3. ^ "Bloemfontein White Horse". The Hillfigure Homepage. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  4. ^ "White Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein". South African History Online. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Designs that Were Never Made". The Hillfigure Homepage. Retrieved 14 November 2021.

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