Broad Town White Horse
Broad Town White Horse is a hill figure of a white horse located in the village of Broad Town, Wiltshire, England.
Broad Town White Horse is a hill figure of a white horse located in the village of Broad Town, Wiltshire, England. One of eight canonical hill figures in Wiltshire depicting a white horse, it is carved into a 45° slope above Little Town Farmhouse and is visible for 20 miles. The horse is 80 by 60 feet in size and composed of fine compacted chalk with well defined edges. Although its origin is uncertain, according to William Plenderleath, writing in 1885, it was cut in 1864 by a William Simmonds, who held the farm then. Simmonds claimed later that it had been his intention to enlarge the horse gradually over the years, but he had to give up the farm and so did not have the opportunity.
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Worth seeing in and around Broad Town White Horse
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Barbury Castle
Barbury Castle is a scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England, about 5.5 miles south of Swindon.
5.4 km · hill fort in England · Wikipedia - 02Bincknoll Castle
Bincknoll Castle, or Bincknoll Camp, is the site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England. The site lies on the end of a triangular promontory on the escarpment beneath the Ridgeway to the south.
1.3 km · site of a possible Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hackpen White Horse
Hackpen White Horse is a chalk hill figure of a white horse on Hackpen Hill, located below The Ridgeway on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, two miles southeast of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England. It is one of eight white horse hill figures located in Wiltshire.
4.5 km · hill figure in Broad Hinton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard
The Church of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire is a parish church of the Diocese of Salisbury, England. It dates from the 13th and 15th centuries, and was restored by William Butterfield in 1860 and 1873–1874.
2.7 km · church in Clyffe Pypard, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Nicholas's Church, Berwick Bassett
St Nicholas's Church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England dates from the early 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
4.7 km · church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06National Collections Centre
The Science and Innovation Park is a research and cultural site at Wroughton, near Swindon, England. Part of the Science Museum Group, the 545 acres Park hosts a range of research and development activity, filming and photography projects, storage for culture sector partners and other commercial activity.
3.4 km · science museum in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Wootton Bassett Museum
Wootton Bassett Museum is a local museum in the market town of Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England. It is housed in the town hall which is a Grade II listed building.
5.3 km · municipal building in Wootten Bassett, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Broad Town White Horse
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 61 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 97 km · Cardiff (CWL), 104 km
- Stations
- Wootton Bassett Junction railway station, 4.5 km
- Bristol → Broad Town White Horse51 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £5–7
- London → Broad Town White Horse120 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £13–17
- Cardiff → Broad Town White Horse91 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £10–14
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Next door to Broad Town White Horse
Broad Town White Horse is 51 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Broad Hintonvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK1.9 km
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- Berwick Bassettvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK5 km
- Clyffe Pypardvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.3 km