Broad Town White Horse, Royal Wootton Bassett

Name: Broad Town White Horse
Address: Royal Wootton Bassett, United Kingdom

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Broad Town White Horse, Royal Wootton Bassett

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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 Nursery 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. ()

Coordinates: 51°30'12"N, 1°51'33"W

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

Nearby attractions include: Swindon Designer Outlet, Barbury Castle, Hackpen White Horse, Lydiard Park.

4.8 miNE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Swindon Designer Outlet, Swindon
124 min walk • Swindon Designer Outlet is a covered designer outlet in Swindon, England. The outlet occupies the restored Great Western railway works and is owned by McArthurGlen. Built by Tarmac Construction and opened in March 1997, it is located a few miles from junction 16 of the M4 motorway.
3.5 miE
Archaeological site, Forts and castles
Barbury Castle
89 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.
2.8 miSE
Memorial
Hackpen White Horse
72 min walk • 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.
3.9 miN
Park, Vernacular architecture
Lydiard Park, Swindon
101 min walk • Lydiard Park is a 260-acre country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its formal name, about 3 miles west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, near Junction 16 of the M4 motorway.
4.4 miS
Archaeological site, View point, Historical place
Windmill Hill, Avebury
111 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.
2.9 miS
Church
St Nicholas's Church, Avebury
75 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.
4 miN
Museum
Lydiard House, Swindon
103 min walk • Lydiard Park is a 260-acre country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its formal name, about 3 miles west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, near Junction 16 of the M4 motorway.
3.3 miNW
Historical place, Museum, History museum
Wootton Bassett Museum, Royal Wootton Bassett
85 min walk • Wootton Bassett Museum is a local museum in the market town of Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England. It is located in the town hall which is a Grade II listed building.
3.9 miS
Church
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Avebury
100 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.
3.3 miNE
Village, Area
Wroughton, Swindon
84 min walk • Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in northeast Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Borough of Swindon and lies along the A4361 road between Swindon and Avebury; the road into Swindon crosses the M4 motorway between junctions 15 and 16.
2.5 miE
Park
Clout's Wood, Swindon
64 min walk • Clout's Wood is an 11.78 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.