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This is a list of hill figures in Wiltshire.
This is a list of hill figures in Wiltshire.
| 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) |  |
| Rank | Name | Location | Created | Age (years) | Width | Height | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |  |
| Rank | Name | Location | Created | Age (years) | Width | Height | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tame Buzzard Line [2] | New Art Centre, Salisbury [2] | 2001 [3] | 21 | 2.3 feet (0.7 m) [4] | 115 feet (35.1 m) [4] | |
| 2 | Pterry the Pterodactyl [5] | Upavon Golf Club | 21st century | About 45 feet (14 m) | About 38 feet (12 m) |  | |
| 3 | Devizes White Horse replica [6] | Nursteed School, Devizes [6] | 2012 [6] | 10 | About 15 feet (5 m) | About 14.8 feet (5 m) |
| 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) |  |
| 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 [7] | Barford St Martin [7] | 1910s | Unknown | |||
| 6 | Rockley White Horse | Rockley | Discovered 1948 | 20th century | 126 feet (38 m) | 66 feet (20 m) | |
| 7 | Laverstock Panda [8] | Laverstock [8] [9] | 1969 [8] | 1980s | 55 feet (17 m) | 55 feet (17 m) |  |
| 8 | Marlborough Arrow [10] | Marlborough [10] | 1969 [10] | 1969 [10] | |||
| 9 | Tan Hill Donkey | Tan Hill | Unknown | 1970s | 75 feet (23 m) | Unknown | |
| 10 | Mock white horse on Battlesbury Hill [11] | Warminster [11] | 2006 [11] | 2006 [11] |
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Westbury or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Located on the edge of Bratton Downs and lying just below an Iron Age hill fort, it is the oldest of several white horses carved in Wiltshire. It was restored in 1778, an action which may have obliterated another horse that had occupied the same slope. A contemporary engraving from around 1772 appears to show a horse facing in the opposite direction that was rather smaller than the present figure. There is, however, no documentation or other evidence for the existence of a chalk horse at Westbury before 1772.
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Cherhill White Horse is a hill figure on Cherhill Down, 3.5 miles east of Calne in Wiltshire, England. Dating from the late 18th century, it is the third oldest of several such white horses in Great Britain, with only the Uffington White Horse and the Westbury White Horse being older. The figure is also sometimes called the Oldbury White Horse.
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Alton Barnes White Horse is a chalk hill figure of a white horse located on Milk Hill some 1,000 metres north of the village of Alton, Wiltshire, England. The horse is approximately 180 feet high and 160 feet long, and was cut in 1812 under the commission of local farmer Robert Pile. Pile instructed inn sign painter John Thorne to design and cut the horse, although Thorne conned Pile by leaving with his advance sum while employing local resident John Harvey to cut the horse instead. It is based on another white horse hill figure in Wiltshire, the Cherhill White Horse, and is the second-biggest of nine white horses in Wiltshire.
Pewsey White Horse is a hill figure of a white horse near the village of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. Cut of chalk in 1937, it replaces an earlier horse that had disappeared under the grass and is one of eight remaining white horses in Wiltshire. It measures 66’ by 45’, making it the smallest of the eight canonical white horses in Wiltshire.
Devizes White Horse, officially known as the Devizes Millennium White Horse, is a chalk hill figure of a horse located on Bank Field, an escarpment at Roundway Hill, on the outskirts of the town of Devizes above the hamlet of Roundway, Wiltshire, England; it is about ½ mile north of Roundway. It was cut in 1999 to celebrate the forthcoming third millennium, and is based on a design of another white horse hill figure, which was also known as Devizes White Horse, or sometimes The Snobs Horse, which was very close to the present horse as it was also on Roundway Hill beneath the Oliver's Castle hill fort. Traces of the Snobs Horse can still be seen under the right conditions.
Broad Town White Horse is a hill figure of a white horse located in the village of Broad Town, Wiltshire, England. One of eight canonical hill figures in Wiltshire depicting a white horse, it is carved into a 45° slope above Little Town Nursery Farmhouse and is visible for 20 miles. The horse is 80 by 60 feet in size and composed of fine compacted chalk with well defined edges. Although its origin is uncertain, according to William Plenderleath, writing in 1885, it was cut in 1864 by a William Simmonds, who held the farm then. Simmonds claimed later that it had been his intention to enlarge the horse gradually over the years, but he had to give up the farm and so did not have the opportunity.
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