Hackpen White Horse

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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 south east of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England. It is one of nine white horse hill figures located in Wiltshire. It is also known as the Broad Hinton White Horse due to its near location to Broad Hinton. Supposedly cut by local parish clerk Henry Eatwell in 1838 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria, the horse is 90 square feet. The horse is regularly scoured and maintained. ()

Coordinates: 51°28'21"N, 1°49'3"W

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Hackpen White Horse – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Kennet Avenue, Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Avebury Manor.

3.6 miS
Avenue of prehistoric standing stones
Kennet Avenue, Avebury
93 min walk • Kennet Avenue or West Kennet Avenue is a prehistoric site in the English county of Wiltshire. It was an avenue of two parallel lines of stones 25m wide and 2.5 km in length, which ran between the Neolithic sites of Avebury and The Sanctuary.
1.7 miNE
Archaeological site, Forts and castles
Barbury Castle
44 min walk • Barbury Castle is a scheduled hill fort situated in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route.
5.9 miNE
Forts and castles
Liddington Castle
150 min walk • Liddington Castle, locally called Liddington Camp, is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hill fort in the English county of Wiltshire. At 277 metres, it is the highest point in the Borough of Swindon. It is sited on a commanding high point close to the Ridgeway and covers an area of 3 hectares.
3.5 miSW
Historical place, Garden, Museum
Avebury Manor, Avebury
90 min walk • Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden.
3.3 miSW
Archaeological site, View point, Historical place
Windmill Hill, Avebury
85 min walk • Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres, it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain.
2 miSW
Church
St Nicholas's Church, Avebury
51 min walk • 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. It was declared redundant in 1972, and was vested in the Trust the next year.
3.2 miSW
, Archaeological site
Stonehenge, Avebury
83 min walk • Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Wiltshire, England. The WHS covers two large areas of land separated by about 15 miles, rather than a specific monument or building.
3.6 miS
Archaeological site
Falkner's Circle, Avebury
92 min walk • Falkner's Circle was a stone circle near the village of Avebury in the south-western English county of Wiltshire. Built from twelve sarsen megaliths, it measured about 37 metres in diameter, although only one of these stones remains standing.
2.6 miSW
Church
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Avebury
66 min walk • The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in the village of Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire, England. It is a 19th-century rebuilding of a structure dating from the 14th century.
3.6 miSE
Archaeological site
The Devil's Den, Marlborough
91 min walk • The Devil's Den or Devil's Den is a dolmen burial chamber on Fyfield Hill near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. The chamber is part of a neolithic passage grave on Fyfield Down.
5.7 miN
Concerts and shows, Theater
Swindon Arts Centre, Swindon
147 min walk • Swindon Arts Centre is a 212-seat entertainment venue located in the Old Town area of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It opened in 1956. The Swindon Arts Centre is situated at the heart of Swindon's Old Town on Devizes Road.