List of hill figures in Wiltshire explained

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

White horse figures

Rank	Name	Location	Created	Age (years)	Width	Height	Image
1	Westbury White Horse	Westbury	1778^[1]		170feet	180feet
2	Cherhill White Horse	Cherhill	1780		165feet	120feet
3	Marlborough White Horse	Preshute	1804		62feet	47feet
4	Alton Barnes White Horse	Alton Barnes, near Alton	1812		160feet	180feet
5	Hackpen White Horse	Broad Hinton	1838		90feet	90feet
6	Broad Town White Horse	Broad Town	1864		80feet	60feet
7	Pewsey White Horse	Pewsey	1937		66feet	45feet
8	Devizes White Horse	Roundway	1999		150feet	148feet

Military figures

Rank	Name	Location	Created	Age (years)	Width	Height	Image
1	Fovant Badges	Fovant	1916
2	Royal Warwickshire Badge	Sutton Mandeville	1916
3	Shiny 7th Badge	Sutton Mandeville	1916
4	Lamb Down Military Badge	Codford	1916–17		175feet	150feet
5	Map of Australia	Compton Down, near Compton Chamberlayne	1917		150feet	About 125feet
6	Bulford Kiwi	Bulford	1919		About 460feet	420feet

Others

Rank	Name	Location	Created	Age (years)	Width	Height	Image
1	Tame Buzzard Line	New Art Centre, Salisbury^[2]	2001^[3]		2.3feet	115feet^[4]
2	Pterry the Pterodactyl^[5]	Upavon Golf Club	21st century		About 45feet	About 38feet
3	Devizes White Horse replica^[6]	Nursteed School, Devizes	2012		About 15feet	About 14.8feet

Former figures

Rank	Name	Location	Created	Lost	Width	Height	Image
1	Former Westbury White Horse	Westbury	Unknown (no later than 1742)	1778	96feet	32feet
2	Former Pewsey White Horse	Pewsey	1785	1937	43feet	Unknown
3	Former Devizes White Horse	Devizes	1845	Around 1922	Unknown	Unknown
4	Ham Hill or Inkpen White Horse	Ham Hill near Inkpen, Berkshire	1860s	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
5	Finsbury Rifles Hurdcott Badge^[7]	Barford St Martin	1910s	Unknown
6	Rockley White Horse	Rockley	Discovered 1948	20th century	126feet	66feet
7	Laverstock Panda^[8]	Laverstock^[9]	1969	1980s	55feet	55feet
8	Marlborough Arrow^[10]	Marlborough	1969	1969
9	Tan Hill Donkey	Tan Hill	Unknown	1970s	75feet	Unknown
10	Mock white horse on Battlesbury Hill^[11]	Warminster	2006	2006

See also

• Bloemfontein, a city in South Africa where Wiltshire troops are believed to have cut the Bloemontein White Horse around 1900,^[12] resulting in "the only Wiltshire white horse, that is not in Wiltshire"^[13]
• Liddington, a village near Swindon once considered for a white horse.^[14]
• List of public art in Wiltshire

Notes and References

1. Web site: WILTSHIRE'S WHITE HORSES. 2021. Visit Wiltshire. October 11, 2021.
2. Web site: Gallery: The Sculpture Park . BBC . 29 September 2022.
3. Web site: Super Nature: Tame Buzzard Line . The Roche Court Educational Trust . 29 September 2022.
4. Web site: Tame Buzzard Line. 2021. Art UK. November 19, 2021.
5. Web site: Visitor Information . Upavon . 29 September 2022.
6. Web site: Cowen . Lewis . Devizes school unveils white horse to mark 10th birthday . Gazette & Herald . 29 September 2022 . 11 October 2012.
7. Web site: Hows . Mark . Hurdcott Badge (Finsbury Rifles) . The Hillfigure Homepage . 29 September 2022.
8. Web site: The Great Laverstock Panda mystery . BBC . 29 September 2022 . 23 September 2003.
9. A new face on the Wiltshire Downs . The Times . 27 January 1969 . 12.
10. Web site: Hows . Mark . Marlborough Scout Logo . The Hillfigure Homepage . 29 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220124234221/http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/hillfigs/lost/arrow.htm . 24 January 2022.
11. Web site: Hinman . Niki . April Fool as second white horse appears on hillside . Wiltshire Times . 29 September 2022 . 6 April 2006.
12. Web site: Bloemfontein White Horse . The Hillfigure Homepage . 14 November 2021.
13. Web site: White Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein . South African History Online . 14 November 2021.
14. Web site: Designs that Were Never Made . The Hillfigure Homepage . 14 November 2021.