CH White & Son, Malmesbury, Wiltshire

The Beauty Of Wiltshires White horses

Advantages: All of these sites are steeped in history
Disadvantages: None at all

There are a grand total of thirteen White chalk horses embedded in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside. Before we go on to take a closer look at each of the White horses maybe I will tell you just why I love them so much. When our children were young the Westbury White Horse was a very popular weekend visiting place, you could bundle the kids into the car, pack a picnic, have just enough petrol in the tank to get there and back and still be sure that it was going to be a good afternoon out. The entrance to the Westbury white horse is via a long, narrow and windy road. But the road does have a number of `passing points`. As the car reaches the brow of the hill there is grass as far as the eye can see. The Westbury White Horse was then the equivalent of a modern indoor play centre but it was filled with fresh air and cost little ...

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Galloping across Wiltshire

Advantages: Fascinating addition to landscape. Interesting stories/fables behind their making. Reminder of special historical events.
Disadvantages: Regular maintenance and scouring needed to prevent them disappearing into the landscape

Scattered throughout the south of England are some 57 hill figures. They?re also known as chalk carvings due to the fact that they?ve been cut into the hillside turf to expose the underlying chalk rock beneath. Of these 57 odd hill figures, Wiltshire seems to boast more hill figures than any other county in England, the most prolific of which being the white horse figures. My father often had sales calls to make in Wiltshire when I was a child, and I?d often go along for the ride just for the scenery. What with Silbury Hill, the mysterious stones at Avebury and Long Barrow (not to mention Stonehenge not so far away), Wiltshire is steeped in history. However, the thing that fascinated me most as a child were the chalk carvings in the hills throughout the county. The most famous of chalk carving of all is the White Horse ...

Bollinger28 16.06.2007 · Read full review
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Wonderful Wiltshire!

Advantages: Beautiful scenery, fresh air, Stone Henge
Disadvantages: So much to see you won't have long enough to do it.

minute onto the unwary shoppers beneath. Heading northeast, we come to Longleat House, home of the, quite frankly, potty, Duke of Bath. This man calls his girlfriends his "wifelets" and has made weird paper mache paintings/sculptures of them which he has stuck all over the staircase of his house, at the moment 64 of them, one for every year he's been alive. Probably more by now. Nutter. Oh yes, and there's a safari park, world's longest maze, huge gardens, a railway and the Adventure Castle, which adults are not allowed to enter unless they are supervised by a child. Heading north from here to Trowbridge, we pass one of several white horses that litter the landscape in Wiltshire. These are not the moving around, eating lots of grass, type of horse, no, these are huge drawings that are cut into the turf of the hills until you can see ...

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