List of hill figures in Wiltshire

A list of hill figures in Wiltshire.

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

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)
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
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
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
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
  1. "WILTSHIRE'S WHITE HORSES". Visit Wiltshire. 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. "Tame Buzzard Line". Art UK. 2021. Retrieved 19 November 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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