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Uffington Castle lies on the summit of the hill, and the Uffington White Horse is on the hill's northern slope. [2] [3] The hill and an adjacent area below, including Dragon Hill and The Manger, make up a 98.9-hectare (244-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. [1] [4]
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. ...
American bison grazing at the preserve. The park's 1,674 acres (6.8 km 2), a mixture of mixed grass prairie, marshes and wooded hills, includes wildlife as 20-30 American bison, [6] 25-40 elk, 20-30 white-tailed deer, and a colony of prairie dogs.
English: White Horse, Preshute Hill, Marlborough Nowhere near as well known as other white horse hill figures in Wiltshire and elsewhere, this one dates from 1809 according to a local source. Date 9 June 2007
Vale scene, with White Horse Hill on the horizon The Uffington White Horse, as seen from an altitude of about 600 m (2000 ft), from the cockpit of a glider On the summit of the hill there is an extensive and well-preserved circular camp, apparently used by the Romans but of much earlier origin.
Marshall County is a county located in far western portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,659. [1] Its county seat is Benton. [2]It is the only Purchase Area county that does not border another state; a narrow strip of land in neighboring Livingston County separates Marshall County from the Ohio River and the Illinois border.
Jenny Wiley State Resort Park was founded as Dewey Lake State Park on January 1, 1954, with Dewey Lake near Prestonsburg, Kentucky as its centerpiece. It was renamed in the early 1950s for Virginia "Jenny" Wiley, a pioneer woman who is remembered as a survivor of captivity by Native Americans.
Blockhouse on Signal Mountain is within the Fort Sill Military Reservation, north of Lawton, Oklahoma. [2] [3] The rock architecture is located along Mackenzie Hill Road at the summit of Signal Mountain within the Fort Sill West Range being the Oklahoma administrative division of Comanche County.