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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.
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. ...
Wantage (/ ˈ w ɒ n t ɪ dʒ /) is a historic market town and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England.Although within the boundaries of the historic county of Berkshire, it has been administered as part of Oxfordshire since 1974.
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.
Dragon Hill is a natural chalk hill with an artificially flattened top (on the scarp slope of White Horse Hill); according to legend [citation needed], Saint George slew the dragon here. A bare patch of chalk upon which no grass will grow is purported to be where the dragon's blood spilled.
The street's one remaining pub, a 16th or 17th-century timber-framed building next to Blackwell's bookshop, is appropriately called the White Horse. [8] On Broad Street, the Protestant Oxford Martyrs, Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley (16 October 1555), and later Thomas Cranmer (21 March 1556), were burnt at the stake just outside the city wall. [6]
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.
The Vale of the White Horse Hunt (or V.W.H.) is a fox hunting pack that was formed in 1832. It takes its name from the neighbouring Vale of White Horse district, which includes a Bronze Age horse hill carving at Uffington .