List of hill figures in Wiltshire

This is a list of hill figures in Wiltshire (ranked by age).

White horse figures

RankNameLocationCoordinatesCreatedAge (years)WidthHeightImage1Westbury White HorseWestbury1778Wiltshire Victoria County History, Vol. 8 (1965), pp. 139–1482Cherhill White HorseCherhill17803Marlborough White HorsePreshute18044Alton Barnes White HorseAlton Barnes, near Alton18125Hackpen White HorseBroad Hinton18386Broad Town White HorseBroad Town18647Pewsey White HorsePewsey19378Devizes White HorseRoundway1999

Military figures

RankNameLocationCoordinatesCreatedAge (years)WidthHeightImage1Fovant BadgesFovant1916Approx. as the crow flies from left-most badge to right-most oneLargest badge has a height of approx. 2Royal Warwickshire BadgeSutton Mandeville1916Approx. Approx. 3Shiny 7th BadgeSutton Mandeville1916Approx. Approx. 4Lamb Down Military Badge (ANZAC badge)Codford1916–175Map of AustraliaCompton Down, near Compton Chamberlayne1917About 6Bulford KiwiBulford1919About About

Others RankNameLocationCoordinatesCreatedAge (years)WidthHeightImage1Tame Buzzard LineNew Art Centre, East Winterslow, Salisbury20012Pterry the PterodactylUpavon Golf Clubc. 2000–2020About About 3Devizes White Horse replicaNursteed School, Devizes2012About About

Former figures RankNameLocationCreatedLostWidthHeightImage1Former Westbury White HorseWestburyBefore 1742Francis Wise, Further Observations on the White Horse and other Antiquities in Berkshire (Oxford: Thomas Wood, 1742), pp. 47–481778"near 100 feet" (30 m)Richard Gough, ed., Camden's Britannia (1789), p. 100, p. 1012Former Pewsey White HorsePewsey17851937Unknown3Former Devizes White HorseDevizes1845Around 1922UnknownUnknown4Ham Hill or Inkpen White HorseHam Hill near Inkpen, Berkshire1860sUnknownUnknownUnknown5Finsbury Rifles Hurdcott BadgeBarford St Martin1910sUnknown6Rockley White HorseRockleyDiscovered 194820th century7Laverstock PandaLaverstock19691980s8Marlborough ArrowMarlborough196919699Tan Hill DonkeyTan HillUnknown1970sUnknown10Mock white horse on Battlesbury HillWarminster20062006

See also Bloemfontein, a city in South Africa where Wiltshire troops are believed to have cut the Bloemontein White Horse around 1900, resulting in "the only Wiltshire white horse, that is not in Wiltshire" Liddington, a village near Swindon once considered for a white horse. List of public art in Wiltshire

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