Hackpen white horse ☆☆☆
A horse cut to celebrate the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838
In 1838, to celebrate the coronoation of Queen Victoria, the parish clerk of Broad Hinton village, Henry Eatwell, got the landlord of his local pub to help him cut a new white horse into a hill just uner two miles outside of town.
Sometimes known as the Broad Hinton White Horse, or Winterbourne Bassett White Horse, it is the only one in England to be cut on a square—90 feet to a side—and, since the hill is tall (for Wiltshire) but its slope gradual, the horse was banked up a bit to make it more visible from the road.
