Numerous chalk figures have been carved into hillsides in the United Kingdom, including :-

• Alton Barnes white horse, Wiltshire (1812)
• Broad Town white horse, Wiltshire (1864)
• Cerne Abbas giant, Dorset (popularly believed to be ancient, but recently dated to c. 17th century)
• Cleadon Hills white horse, Tyne and Wear (before 1887)
• old Devizes white horse, or the Snobs' horse (1845)
• new Devizes white horse (1999)
• Cherhill or Oldbury white horse, Wiltshire (1780)
• Folkestone white horse, Kent (2003)
• Hackpen or Broad Hinton or Winterbourne Bassett white horse, Wiltshire (1838?)
• Hindhead white horse, Surrey (before 1913, lost)
• Ham Hill or Inkpen white horse, Wiltshire (1865-1877)
• Kilburn White Horse, Yorkshire (1857)
• old Litlington white horse, Sussex (c.1838)
• new Litlington white horse, Sussex (1925)
• Marlborough or Preshute white horse, Wiltshire (1804)
• Mormond or Strichen, Aberdeenshire white horse, Aberdeenshire (c.1800)
• Osmington white horse, Dorset (c.1808)
• old Pewsey white horse, Wiltshire (1785)
• new Pewsey white horse, Wiltshire (1937)
• Rockley white horse, Wiltshire (discovered 1948, now lost)
• Tan Hill white horse, Wiltshire (lost)
• Uffington White Horse (Bronze Age, 1400 BC to 600 BC)
• Westbury or Bratton white horse, Wiltshire (before 1742)
• Long Man of Wilmington, Sussex (c. 16th century)
• Whipsnade Zoo white lion, on the Dunstable Downs , Bedfordshire (1931)

See also

• English folklore
• Anglo-Saxon mythology

External links

The Hillfigure Homepage (http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/hillfigs/)