This white horse is on a comparatively shallow slope, but is partly banked up to make it more easily visible. There is a car park on Hackpen Hill where that road crosses The Ridgeway, and the horse can be easily reached from it.
We stopped and took a chilly, brisk walk up the hill to get a closer look. What would have inspired someone, so long ago to do something like this?
The Hackpen White Horses origin is uncertain. It may have been cut in 1838 by a Henry Eatwell, Broad Hinton parish clerk, perhaps with the assistance of the landlord of a local pub, to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria. - But why a horse?
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