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Folkestone White Horse

Cheriton Hill, Folkestone, Kent

A modern white horse looking down on the Channel Tunnel.

Cut in 2003 for the new millennium, the Folkestone White Horse overlooks the entrance to the Channel Tunnel. It was designed to look like a horse drawn in a few strokes.

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When
Cut 2003
Where
51.0980, 1.1550
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Best seen from the M20 and Channel Tunnel approach. Footpaths run along the hilltop.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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