Devizes White Horse

About

Devizes White Horse, officially known as the Devizes Millennium White Horse, is a chalk hill figure of a horse located on Bank Field, an escarpment at Roundway Hill, on the outskirts of the town of Devizes above the hamlet of Roundway, Wiltshire, England; it is about ½ mile north of Roundway. It was cut in 1999 to celebrate the forthcoming third millennium, and is based on the design of an earlier white horse hill figure, also known as the Devizes White Horse, or sometimes the Snobs Horse. The earlier horse was very close to the present figure, also on Roundway Hill beneath the Oliver's Castle hill fort. Traces of the Snobs Horse can still be seen under the right conditions. Devizes White Horse is the eighth and most recent major white horse hill figure cut in Wiltshire that is still visible today, and is 45.7 metres (150 ft) long by 45 metres (148 ft) high. Although sometimes viewed from a skewed angle from nearby roads, the horse can be seen from miles away, including from Bratton Castle on Bratton Downs, home to the Westbury White Horse. It is also visible from the Vale of Pewsey, home to the Pewsey White Horse, where Devizes White Horse and Alton Barnes White Horse can be seen facing each other.

Coordinates

51.3763, -1.9785

Address

Roundway Hill, Wiltshire, England

Established

1999

Sources

• wikipedia: Devizes White Horse (CC BY-SA 4.0)