Southdown Bed and Breakfast (White Horse Walking Holidays)

Mark and Nicola are very welcoming and happy to advise on how to get the most from your trip. Well-placed in a quiet pretty village for the Wiltshire Horses, Avebury Circle and Devizes.

It has a well-deserved reputation for excellent food, including the locally farmed snails! A great location within a short drive of both the Cerne Abbas giant and the Osmington horse. Maybe alumni such as William Morris and John Betjeman once picked up a trowel or spade? STAYīridge House Hotel Beaminster, Dorset - This Tudor house, complete with its own priest hole, offers beautiful accommodation. Even the pupils of an exclusive private school, Marlborough College, clean their local horse. Scouts regularly abseil down the face of the Cherhill horse, cheerfully weeding as they go. Each village has its own approach to keeping the edges defined-a bit of extreme gardening. Holding back nature is also an ongoing problem some horses have disappeared altogether. Large teams ram down additional pieces of chalk with sledgehammers, sometimes adding lime for brightness. With the shape complete, help may still be needed to make the horse white. From more than a mile away from the hillside, he shouted instructions through a large speaking trumpet to men marking out the shape with white flags. Christopher Alsop, known as the “Mad Doctor” (probably for creating the horse in the first place). The Cherhill horse was created in 1780 by Dr. Translating such artistic ideals onto a windy hillside, however, is not easy. More realistic horse shapes started to be used in the mid-18th century, inspired by the work of George Stubbs, the British painter of horses.

The little white horse