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Westbury White Horse

Bratton Downs, Wiltshire

Wiltshire's oldest white horse, said to mark an ancient victory of King Alfred.

The Westbury horse sits below the Iron Age hillfort of Bratton Camp. Legend says an earlier horse was cut to celebrate King Alfred's victory over the Danes at Ethandun in 878, which may have been fought nearby.

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When
Recut 1778
Where
51.2645, -2.1440
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Free access, with a car park on top of the down.

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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