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The Kilburn White Horse is a hill figure cut into the hillside in the North York Moors National Park near Kilburn in North Yorkshire, England. It is 318 feet (97 m) long by 220 ft (67 m) high and covers about 1.6 acres (6,475 m 2) and said to be the most northerly "chalk" hill figure in England. [1]
The Cerne Abbas Giant chalk figure, near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England, is made by a turf-cut. The Uffington White Horse at Uffington, Oxfordshire The 18th-century Westbury White Horse near Westbury, Wiltshire. A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying ...
Cerne Abbas Giant on an 1891 Ordnance Survey map (1:10,560) [4]. The Giant is located just outside the small village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, about 48 kilometres (30 mi) west of Bournemouth and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Dorchester.
The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) [1] long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.The figure is situated on the upper slopes of Whitehorse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington in Oxfordshire, some 16 km (10 mi) east of Swindon, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage; or 2. ...
From afar the figure appears to have been carved from the underlying chalk, but the modern figure is formed from white-painted breeze blocks and lime mortar. [3] The Long Man is one of two major extant human hill figures in England; the other is the Cerne Abbas Giant, north of Dorchester. Both are scheduled monuments.
Westbury White Horse 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. [1]
The Bulford Kiwi is a large depiction of a kiwi, carved in the chalk on Beacon Hill above the military town of Bulford on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It was created in 1919 by soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who were awaiting repatriation following the end of the First World War.
The Litlington White Horse is a chalk hill figure depicting a horse, situated on Hindover Hill (locally known as High-and-Over) in the South Downs.It overlooks the River Cuckmere to the west of the village of Litlington and north of East Blatchington in East Sussex, England.