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White Horse Close from the steps of the former White Horse Inn. The inn was the departure point for the stagecoaches that ran between Edinburgh, Newcastle and London in the 18th century. Five arches on the Calton Road side of the building (previously known as the North Back of the Canongate) indicate the former existence of an undercroft which ...
Map of Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, UK with electoral wards in 2015 shown. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160% Geographic limits: West: 1.72W; East: 1.18W; North: 51.80N; South: 51.50N; Date: 11 May 2015: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product.
A close is private property, hence gated and closed to the public, whereas a wynd is an open thoroughfare, usually wide enough for a horse and cart [citation needed]. Most slope steeply down from the Royal Mile creating the impression of a herring-bone pattern formed by the main street and side streets when viewed on a map.
Whitehorse Hill is a hill in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire, England, west of Wantage.At 261 metres (856 ft), it is the highest point in Oxfordshire. Uffington Castle lies on the summit of the hill, and the Uffington White Horse is on the hill's northern slope.
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Bourton is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Highworth in neighbouring Wiltshire.Bourton was part of the parish of Shrivenham until 1867, [2] and was in Berkshire until the 1974 local government boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire.
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Cherhill White Horse in 2015. 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. [1]