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Marlborough White Horse

Preshute, Marlborough, Wiltshire

A small horse cut by schoolboys.

The Marlborough White Horse was cut in 1804 by the boys of a local school run by a Mr Greasley. It is small, only about 19 metres long, and it sits on a slope above the grounds of Marlborough College.

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When
Cut 1804
Where
51.4100, -1.7500
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Seen from the A4 west of Marlborough.

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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